There are 73 poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.“How awkward when playing with glue”
By Constance Levy
A Poison Tree
By William Blake
A Teacher’s Lament
By Kalli Dakos
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore
About the Teeth of Sharks
By John Ciardi
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Address to A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening
By Dorothy Wordsworth
“Because he swings so neatly through the trees,”
By n/a
“If you’re fond of road-blocks, this one can’t be beat:”
By n/a
“When in your neighborhood you hear a neigh,”
By n/a
Caterpillars
By Brod Bagert
Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall
Colonel Fazackerley
By Charles Causley
Country Barnyard
By Elizabeth J. Coatsworth
December 26
By Kenn Nesbitt
December Substitute
By Kenn Nesbitt
Deep in Our Refrigerator
By Jack Prelutsky
Drift-Raft 
By Atsuro Riley
Fish
By Mary Ann Hoberman
Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Freddie
By Phil Bolsta
George Washington’s Birthday: Wondering
By Bobbi Katz
Good Morning, Dear Students
By Kenn Nesbitt
Halloween Party
By Kenn Nesbitt
Hey, Ma, Something’s under My Bed
By Joan Horton
I Left My Head
By Lilian Moore
I Wave Good-bye When Butter Flies
By Jack Prelutsky
I’m Glad I’m Me
By Phil Bolsta
If You Catch a Firefly
By Lilian Moore
Infant Joy
By William Blake
Jill Came from the Fair
By Eleanor Farjeon
Leap Year Poem
By Anonymous
Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
Light the Festive Candles
By Aileen Fisher
Lunchbox Love Note
By Kenn Nesbitt
Mine
By Lilian Moore
My Brother
By Marci Ridlon
My Brother, the Artist, at Seven 
By Philip Levine
My Doggy Ate My Homework
By Dave Crawley
My First Best Friend
By Jack Prelutsky
My Violin
By Bruce Lansky
Perfect
By Kenn Nesbitt
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Some Opposites
By n/a
Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare
Sunflakes
By Frank Asch
Tender-heartedness
By Harry Graham
The Bat
By n/a
The Creature in the Classroom
By Jack Prelutsky
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear
The Forsaken Merman
By Matthew Arnold
The Giant Water Bug
By Douglas Florian
The Grasshopper
By Conrad Aiken
The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes
The Lamb
By William Blake
The Mayfly
By Douglas Florian
The Sloth
By n/a
The Snowflake
By Walter De La Mare
The Termites
By Douglas Florian
The Ticks
By Douglas Florian
There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of Calcutta
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of New York
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear
Things I’m Not Good At
By Jeff Moss
Twickham Tweer
By Jack Prelutsky
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
William I
By Eleanor Farjeon
You are Old, Father William
By Lewis Carroll
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