Behold! My list of Poetry Worth Knowing. Note that because I am a mom, much of this poetry is what’s thought of as “children’s poems;” but most of it is worth knowing even if there are no small ones around.
“I Am” Hilda Conkling
“For a Child” Fannie Stearns Davis
“Barter” Sara Teasdale
“A Grace for a Child” Robert Herrick
“Song for a Little House” Christopher Morley
“When Mother Reads Aloud”
“Her Words” Anna Hempstead Branch
“A Baby’s Feet” Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Little” Dorothy Aldis
“The Quarrel” Eleanor Farjeon
“Afternoon With Grandmother” Barbara A. Huff
“Mumps” Elizabeth Madox Roberts
“The Land of Counterpane” by RL Stevenson
“Prayer for This House” Louis Untermeyer
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
“Hiding” by Dorothy Aldis
“At The Sea-Side” by RL Stevenson
“The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse” by Christina Rossetti
“Starfish” by Winifred Welles
“The Rum Tum Tugger” by TS Eliot
“The Tiger” by William Blake
“Hearth” by Peggy Bacon
“The Locomotive” by Emily Dickinson
“From a Railway Carriage” by RL Stevenson
“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
“Be Different to Trees” by Mary Carolyn Davies
“What Do We PLant?” by Henry Abbey
“The Little Rose Tree” by Rachel Field
“Daffodils” by WIlliam Wordsworth
“The Lilac” by Humbert Wolfe
“The Grass” by Emily Dickinson
“The Pasture” by Robert Frost
“Millions of Strawberries” by Genevieve Taggard
“The Last Corn Shock” by Glenn Ward Dresbach
“Prayers of Steel” by Carl Sandburg
“The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky” by Vachel Lindsay
“Some People” by Rachel Field
“Antique Shop” by Carl Carmer
“An Old Woman of the Roads” by Padraig Colum
“There Isn’t Time” by Eleanor Farjeon
“Jonathan Bing” by Beatrice Curtis Brown
“The Modern Hiawatha” by George A. Strong
“Father William” by Lewis Carroll
“How Doth the Little Crocodile” by Lewis Carroll
“I’d Love to be a Fairy’s Child” by Robert Graves
“Paul Revere’s Ride” by HW Longfellow
“The Battle-Hymn of the Republic” by Julia Ward Howe
“THe New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
“Little Blue Boy” by Eugene Field
“Jest ‘Fore Christmas” by Eugene Field
“The Barefoot Boy” by John Greenleaf Whittier
“The Village Blacksmith” by HW Longfellow
“Woodman! Spare That Tree!” by George Pope Morris
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
