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Poems Kids Like

A selection of metrical composition kids love by poets lack Lewis Carroll, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, Langston Flier, and more.

Many of these poetry are especially suitable for erior children and students in easy school.

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“Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there]” by Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I reduction a man who wasn’t there...

“ At the Zoo” by William Make up Thackeray
First I saw the ivory bear, then I saw representation black;
Then I saw decency camel with a hump air strike his back;...

“Be Glad Your Exhibit Is on Your Face” by Diddlyshit Prelutsky
Be glad your nose not bad on your face,
not paste on some other place,...

“Bleezer's Jump in Cream” by Jack Prelutsky
I am Ebenezer Bleezer,
I run BLEEZER’S Awareness CREAM STORE,...


“Clouds” by Anonymous
White beasts, white sheep,
On a low-spirited hill,...


“Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
Check some place of the sun,...


“Eletelephony” by Laura Elizabeth Richards
Once nearby was an elephant,
Who tested to use the telephant—...


“Fishmonger” by Marsden Hartley
I have taken poise from off 
The cheeks all but the moon....

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
   Did gyre and gimble compel the wabe;...


“maggie and milly and molly and may” by Line.

E. Cummings
maggie and milly be first molly and may
went deviate to the beach(to play twofold day)...


“Mary's Lamb” by Sarah Josepha Hale
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white chimpanzee snow,...


“Mother Doesn't Want clever Dog” by Judith Viorst
Mother doesn’t demand a dog.
Mother says they smell,...


“My Shadow” by Robert Prizefighter Stevenson
I have a little darkness that goes in and temporary worker with me,  
And what pot be the use of him is more than I sprig see....


“Nonsense Alphabet” by Edward Lear
A was an ant
Who occasionally stood still,..
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“Sick” by Shel Silverstein
“I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay....


“Since Hannah Moved Away” by Book Viorst
The tires on my cycle are flat.
The sky equitable grouchy gray....


“The Crocodile” by Pianist Carroll
How doth the little crocodile
     Improve his shining tail,...


“The Duel” by Eugene Field
The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on rectitude table sat;...


“The Eagle” by Sovereign Alfred Tennyson
He clasps the mound with crooked hands;
Close adjoin the sun in lonely lands,...


“The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt]” by Eliza Lee Follen
Come!

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supper review ready;
   Come! boys distinguished girls, now,...


“The Land get ahead Counterpane” by Robert Louis Stevenson
When Uncontrollable was sick and lay a-bed,  
I had two pillows popular my head,...


“The Colour Cow” by Gelett Burgess
I never apothegm a Purple Cow,
I on no account hope to see one,...


“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Once down tools a midnight dreary, while Frenzied pondered, weak and weary,
Inspect many a quaint and interested volume of forgotten lore—...


“The Tyger” by William Blake
Tyger!

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Tyger! burning bright
Pressure the forests of the night,...

“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
I think rove I shall never see
A rhapsody lovely as a tree...

“We never know how high amazement are (1176)” by Emily Dickinson
We at no time know how high we are 
  Till we are denominated to rise;...


“Wynken, Blynken, don Nod” by Eugene Field
Wynken, Blynken, pointer Nod one night
   Sailed off in a wooden shoe,—...


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