Children's Poetry

The poets who wrote for the young — Eugene Field, James Whitcomb Riley, and Stevenson — rhymes that delight at five and fifty.

Verse to read aloud

In this collection

• Captain Eli's Best Ear
• Kuratko the Terrible: the Story of an Ungrateful Chick
• Little Sally Waters
• Billy Bunny and the Miller's Boy
• The Elf and the Bee
• There Where the Land of Love
• The Fatuous Flower
• A New Monroe Doctrine
• The Little Town o' Tailholt (in Dialect)
• Johnson's Boy
• Lampblack
• Selfishness
• The Tale of Two Bad Mice
• I Am Like One That Has Sat Alone
• The Trippertrots and the Fireman
• An Honest Little Man
• The Scarecrow of Oz
• The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
• The Conversazzhyony
• Oh, Editor, Editor!
• The Artemus of Michigan
• The Bat, the Bramble, and the Seagull
• Henry the Third
• The Tale of Mr. Tod
• The Snowball
• The Talking Cricket Scolds Pinocchio
• Concerning Revolving Doors
• Baby's Ride
• The Hundredth Amendment
• My Night
• The Broken Ring
• Ad Olum
• The Catfish
• Robin Redbreast
• Twin Idols
• The Girls and I
• Balloons
• Child or Fairy
• Fairies
• Ocean Wonders
• Trees
• Balow, my Bonnie
• Heigho, my Dearie
• Hushaby, Sweet my Own
• Inscription for my Little Son's Silver Plate
• Kissing Time
• Little all-Aloney
• Little-Oh-Dear
• Medieval Eventide Song
• So, so, Rock-A-By so!
• The Dinkey-Bird
• The Humming-Top
• The Rock-A-By Lady
• When I was a Boy
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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