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This section of the Subject Index focuses on poems for children. Many are story-poems, or simple rhymes, or various types of light verse, though some are cautionary tales (Hillaire Belloc, for instance) some are instructional, and some are serious.
Children like poems for the simple reason that the rhymes and rhythms appeal to them, and are easy to remember. Remamber that for many children, especially young children, learning is more an act of memorization by example than reading.
For poems about children, see the Family section of the Subject Index. NOte that you will see multiple entries for several poets here - poets who specifically wrote for children as well as adults.
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a ballon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. --Carl Sandburg
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
- The Duel by Eugene Field
- The Sugar-Plum Tree by Eugene Field
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat
- The Jumblies by Edward Lear
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea
- All things bright and beauteous by Cecil Frances Alexander
This is an English Hymn, in the instructional catregory, though the lines have been made into book titles familiar to many.
- From a Railway Carriage from A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bed in Summer from A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- My Shadow from A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Microbe from More Beasts fro Worse Children by Hilaire Belloc
- Jim from Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion
- Rebecca from Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably
- Against Idleness and Mischief by Isaac Watts
- Against Quarreling and Fighting by Isaac Watts
- Soup Beautiful Soup from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Young and Old by Charles Kingsley
- A Farewell to C.E.G. by Charles Kingsley
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