Poetry is a wonderful way to enrich young children's minds to use their imaginations. Listed below are some well known and influential poems as well as others to help children grasp the diverse magnitude of imagination and thought that writers can venture when writing poetry. Hopefully, these poems will help inspire and encourage children to be masters of their own work.
There's a Friend for little children- Albert Midlane
A Light Exists in Spring- Emily Dickinson
All things bright and beautiful- Cecil Frances Alexander
Nonsense Alphabet- Edward Lear
Lunchbox Love Note- Kenn Nesbitt
15 Answer To A Child's Question- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Child's Garden of Verses- Robert Louis Stevenson
Eletelephony-Laura E. Richards
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening- Robert Frost
Theme for English B- Langston Hughes
Please Mrs. Butler- Allan Ahlberg
With Trumpet and Drum- Eugene Field
The Ssssnake Hotel-Brian Moses
Once Upon a Time- Valerie Bloom
Why God Made Teachers- Kevin William Huff
The Eagle- Lord Tennyson Alfred
The Inward Morning- Henry David Thoreau