There are 40 poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.
“How awkward when playing with glue”
By Constance Levy
A Poison Tree
By William Blake
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Caterpillars
By Brod Bagert
Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
December Substitute
By Kenn Nesbitt
Fake Tattoo
By Nikki Grimes
Falling: The Code
By Li-Young Lee
For “Fiddle-de-de”
By John Hollander
George Washington’s Birthday: Wondering
By Bobbi Katz
Halloween Party
By Kenn Nesbitt
I Left My Head
By Lilian Moore
If You Catch a Firefly
By Lilian Moore
John James Audobon
By Stephen Vincent Benét
Leap Year Poem
By Anonymous
Liberty
By Archibald MacLeish
Light the Festive Candles
By Aileen Fisher
little tree
By E. E. Cummings
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 Violin
By Bruce Lansky
Perfect
By Kenn Nesbitt
Playing Dead 
By Andrew Hudgins
Revelations in the Key of K 
By Mary Karr
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare
Tender-heartedness
By Harry Graham
The Air Base at Châteauroux, France
By Sherod Santos
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear
The Grasshopper
By Conrad Aiken
The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes
The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll
The Lamb
By William Blake
The True-Blue American
By Delmore Schwartz
Then and Now
By Babette Deutsch
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
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