Famous Children Poems

Poems for Children by Famous Poets

Poetry offers up a wealth of benefits for children. It fosters a love for language, thereby building literacy. It helps children understand themselves and others, allowing them to cultivate valuable qualities like compassion and empathy. It is also a healthy way for children to express their emotions and deal with emotionally challenging situations. Fortunately, there are many famous poems for children. Poets like A. A. Milne and William Blake wrote many poems for children that can inspire them to find their voice and representation through poetry, even from an early age.

Poems for Kids

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Sick
- By Shel Silverstein
Sick By Shel Silverstein

“I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

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Now We Are Six
- By A. A. Milne
Now We Are Six By A.A. Milne

When I was one,
I had just begun.
When I was two,
I was nearly new.

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Wind On The Hill
- By A. A. Milne
Wind On The Hill By A.A. Milne

No one can tell me,
Nobody knows,
Where the wind comes from,
Where the wind goes.

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Waiting At The Window
- By A. A. Milne
Waiting At The Window By A.A. Milne

These are my two drops of rain
Waiting on the window-pane.

I am waiting here to see

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From A Railway Carriage
- By Robert Louis Stevenson
From A Railway Carriage By Robert Louis Stevenson

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

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The Mountain And The Squirrel
- By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Mountain And The Squirrel By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter
"Little prig."

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Dirty Face
- By Shel Silverstein
Dirty Face By Shel Silverstein

Where did you get such a dirty face,
My darling dirty-faced child?
I got it from crawling along in the dirt
And biting two buttons off Jeremy's shirt.

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Sneezles
- By A. A. Milne
Sneezles By A.A. Milne

Christopher Robin
Had wheezles
And sneezles,
They bundled him

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Halfway Down
- By A. A. Milne
Halfway Down By A.A. Milne

Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn't any

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Theme In Yellow
- By Carl Sandburg
Theme In Yellow By Carl Sandburg

I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters

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