Poems about Children

• The Early Morning

  The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other;
  The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother.

  by Hilaire Belloc 3 lines, 1 comment
• Sunflowers

  Sun-flowers, stop growing!
  If you touch the sky where those clouds are passing

  by Hilda Conkling 10 lines, 2 comments
• Franklin Hyde

  Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle
  His uncle came on Franklin Hyde

  by Hilaire Belloc 22 lines, 1 comment
• The Girl That Lost Things

  There was a girl that lost things--
  Nor only from her hand;

  by George MacDonald 88 lines, 3 comments
• At School

  FIVE little Girls, sitting on a form,
  Five little Girls, with lessons to learn,

  by Kate Greenaway 8 lines, 5 comments
• Child's Song

  THE King and the Queen were riding
  Upon a Summer's day,

  by Kate Greenaway 8 lines, 1 comment
• Good-Bye

  FAIRY Blue Eyes
  And Fairy Brown,

  by Kate Greenaway 8 lines, 1 comment
• Los zapaticos de Rosa

  A Mademoiselle Marie
  Hay sol bueno y mar de espuma,

  by Jose Marti 180 lines
• Blue Shoes

  Little Blue Shoes mustn't go
  Very far alone, you know

  by Kate Greenaway 8 lines
• The Traveller

  As I rode in to Burrumbeet,
  I met a man with funny feet;

  by C J Dennis 30 lines, 1 comment
• Little Gorilla

  Little Gorilla, why do you look so sad? . . .
  Are you thinking about the glorious times that you had

  by Cicely Fox Smith 13 lines
• A Baby-Sermon

  The lightning and thunder
  They go and they come:

  by George MacDonald 3 lines, 2 comments
• After A Visit ToThe Natural History Museum

  This is the Wiggledywasticus,
  Very remarkable beast.

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 29 lines, 3 comments
• From Wonder World

  OUT of Wonder World I think you come;
  For in your eyes the wonder comes with you.

  by Kate Greenaway 12 lines, 1 comment
• Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju

  You left in the morning, at evening my heart is in a
  thousand pieces.

  by Yosa Buson 30 lines
• Dickery Dickery Dock

  Dickery, dickery dock,
  The mouse ran up the clock;

  by Anonymous British 5 lines
• Ninny Nanny Netticoat

  Ninny Nanny Netticoat,
  In a white petticoat,

  by Beatrix Potter 5 lines, 2 comments
• Topsy-Turvy World

  IF the butterfly courted the bee,
  And the owl the porcupine;

  by William Brighty Rands 30 lines, 2 comments
• My Little Girlie

  LITTLE girlie tell to me
  What your wistful blue eyes see?

  by Kate Greenaway 12 lines
• The Cats Have Come To Tea

  WHAT did she see–oh, what did she see,
  As she stood leaning against the tree?

  by Kate Greenaway 16 lines, 1 comment
• Legend of Rosemary

  There was once a lady, divinely tall,
  who lived high up in a castle wall,

  by Reginald Arkell 21 lines
• In The Fashion

  A lion has a tail and a very fine tail
  And so has an elephant and so has a whale,

  by A.A. Milne 15 lines
• The Creation

  All things bright and beatiful,
      All creatures, great and small,

  by Cecil Francis Humphreys 33 lines
• Adventures Of Isabel

  Isabel met an enormous bear,
  Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;

  by Ogden Nash 39 lines, 2 comments
• Book Contents: The Animals Noah Forgot:Banjo Paterson

  ‘The Animals Noah Forgot’ A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson
  A wonderful look at some of the strange, wonderful animals in Australia - images a

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 24 lines, 4 comments
• The Witches Song

  "Hoity-toity! Hop-o'-my-thumb!
  Tweedledee and Tweedledum!

  by Ruth Bedford 35 lines, 1 comment
• Ham, Shem And Japhet

  Ham, Shem, and Japhet went a-sailing in the Ark,
  With all the kinds of animals that grunt and squeak and bark,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 14 lines
• Brumby's Run

  It lies beyond the Western Pines
  Towards the sinking sun,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 47 lines
• A Brief Ballad Of Araby

  In Araby, in Araby,
  In Araby the blest,

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 26 lines, 3 comments
• The Gargoyle And The Griffin

  Once a Gargoyle and a Griffin
  Thought they'd go and take their tiffin

  by Laura Elizabeth Richards 54 lines

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