Chocolate Cake (Michael Rosen Poems)
I love chocolate cake.And when I was a boyI loved it even more.Sometimes we used to have it for teaand ...
Poems about playtime (20 Poems)
The Bride (Laurence Hope Poems)
Beat on the Tom-toms, and scatter the flowers, Jasmin, Hibiscus, vermillion and white,This is the day, and the Hour of Hours, Bring ...
Old Hudson Rovers (Michael Earls Poems)
(For Joyce Kilmer)When the dreamy night is on, up the Hudson river,And the sheen of modern taste is dim and ...
Sleep-Steale (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know. Clasping her pitcher to her waist mother went to fetch waterfrom the ...
Grandfather Says (Ai Ogawa Poems)
'Sit in my hand.'I'm ten.I can't see him,but I hear him breathingin the dark.It's after dinner playtime.We're outside,hidden by trees ...
Autobiographia (G.E. Patterson Poems)
I had everything and luck: Rings of smokeblown for me; sunlight safe inside the leavesof cottonwoods; pure, simple harmoniesof church ...
By Still Waters (Bliss William Carman Poems)
MY tent stands in a gardenOf aster and goldenrod,Tilled by the rain and the sunshine,And sown by the hand of ...
The Postman (Billy Bennett Poems)
Three cheers for the postman, the jolly old postman,With letters for Smith, Brown and Kelly, A load in his sack, ...
The Daisies (Edith Nesbit Poems)
In the great green park with the wooden palings -The wooden palings so hard to climb,There are fern and foxglove, ...
The Water-Witch (Alice Guerin Crist Poems)
The little creek went winding down'Twixt whispering reeds and small blue flowers,Singing a pleasant summer songOf holidays and playtime hours.We ...
Good-By To The Cradle (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
GOOD-BY to the cradle, the dear wooden cradle, The rude hand of Progress has thrust it aside: No more to ...
May Day (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Will you go a-maying, a-maying, a-maying,Come and be my Queen of May and pluck the may with me?The fields are ...
Ghazal (Faiz Ahmed Faiz Poems)
I am being accused of loving you, that is allIt is not an insult, but a praise, that is allMy ...
The Genesis of the Butterfly (Victor Hugo Poem)
The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers That kiss the buds, ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
When We Were Young (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
The Cry Of The Children (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
Wisdom (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary. Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeller; ...
Shepherd And Goatherd (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year. I wished before it ceased. Goatherd. Nor bird nor beast ...
Four Songs Of Four Seasons (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...