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Poems for Children

These are poems that my daughter enjoyed when she was younger, and now my grandson has just started to read them too.

I think that all young children enjoy poetry and if they enjoy reading these maybe they'll take an interest in the classic poets later.

Before you go any further please take note of the following url.

http://devoted.to/purelypoetry

After spending quite a while offline due to bandwidth restrictions I moved to somewhere that rarely goes down! If you can't find me here then try the new address!

 

The ABC by Spike Milligan

A Dogs Life by Matt Simpson

After A Bath by Aileen Fisher

A Hug by Anon

A Kangaroo by Julie Holder

The Alchemist by Gareth Owen

Allotment Rose by Peter Dixon

Animals On The Ark by Anon

Ask Mummy by John Agard

Aunti Agnes's Cat by Colin West

The Band by John Foster

Bear by Jean Kenward

The Bear Facts

Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

Bed's Best by Kaye Umansky

Bedtime by Allan Ahlberg

Bedtime by Richard Edwards

Ben Alone by Nicola Davies

Betty At The Party by Anon

Birdfoot's Grampa by Joseph Bruchac

Birthdays by Trevor Millum

The Boastful Ghost by Richard Edwards

Boasting by Eleanor Farjeon

Bookshop by Jane Clark

Bouncing Round The Playground by Mike Jubb

Bursting by Dorothy Aldis

Cats by Eleanor Farjeon

Cats And Dogs by N. M. Bodecker

Chivvy by Michael Rosen

Circus Elephants by John Foster

A City Ditty by Eve Merriam

City Mouse And Town Mouse by Christina Rosetti

The Clown's Last Joke by John Agard

The Cold Old House by Anon

Combinations by Anon

The Cow by Jack Prelutsky

The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Cows On The Beach by Matthew Sweeney

Crocodile's Toothache by Shel Silverstein

Daddy Fell Into The Pond by Alfred Noyes

Day Into Night by James Kirkup

The Day Our Dog Died by Ramona Harris

Distracted the Mother Said To Her Boy by Gregory Harrison

Doggerel by John Townsend

Dragon by Jean Kenwood

The Dragon's Birthday Party by Ian McMillan

Dreaming The Unicorn by Tony Mitton

The Duck And The Kangaroo by Edward Lear

Ducks Ditty by Kenneth Grahame

Ducks On The Water by Jack Ousby

Dumb Insolence by Adrian Mitchell

The Egg Song by Tony Mitton

The Elephant by Anon

Elephant by Roger McGough

Elephant Antics by Jill Townsend

Fairy Story by Stevie Smith

Footprints by John Travers Moore

Four Wrens by Anon

Friends by Elizabeth Jennings

Furry Bear by A. A. Milne

The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge

The Gentle Giant by Dennis Lee

Geraldine Giraffe by Colin West

The Giant's Accidents by Charles Thomson

The Giggles by Martin Gardner

Give Yourself A Hug by Grace Nichols

Going Hairless by June Crebbin

A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson

Gorilla by Martin Honeysett

Grannie by Vernon Scannell

Great Granddad by John Foster

Have You Ever Thought by Jacqueline Brown

Hospital Visit by John Foster

Hot Day by Jacqueline Hamer

Hot Food by Michael Rosen

Hour When Witches Fly by John Foster

How Can I by Brian Moses

How Far by Olive Dove

How Strange by John Foster

Huff by Wendy Cope

Hugs by Shel Silverstein

The Hurt Boy And The Birds by John Agard

I Am The Rain by Grace Nicholls

I Have A Hipppopotamus by Dave Calder

I Never See The Stars At Night by George Barker

I Scratched A Poem by John Foster

I Wonder by Jeannie Kirby

I Wouldn't by John Ciardi

Ice Bears by Russell Hoban

In Black Chasms by Leslie Norris

Into The Mixer by Matthew Sweeny

The Island by Dorothy Aldis

The Itch by Michael Rosen

Isn't It Amazing by Max Fatchen

It's Diwali Tonight by John Foster

It's Not the Same Anymore by Paul Cookson

I've Got A Cold by Roger McGough

Jemima Jane by Marchette Chute

Jessica Jane by May Justus

Kate's Unicorn by Adrian Henri

The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stephenson

Last Waltz by Peter Dixon

Learning by Phil Carradice

The Lonely Dragon by Teresa Heine

Lost In A Crowd by John C. Desmond

Magic Cat by Peter Dixon

Magic Horse by John Foster

The Man In The Moon by Anon

Mice by Rose Fyleman

Mid-term Break by Seamus Heaney

Mine by Lilian Moore

Mister Giraffe by Geoffrey Lapage

A Munching Monster by Marian Swinger

The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mumbling Bees by Daphne Lister

Mum Is Having A Baby by Colin McNaughton

My Dog by Emily Lewis

My Grandpa by Ian Souter

My Mother Saw A Dancing Bear by Charles Causley

My New Rabbit by Elizabeth Gould

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stephenson

Nan by Sarah Garland

A Nature Walk by Marian Swinger

The Night Will Never Stay by Eleanor Farjeon

Nine Mice by Jack Prelutsky

Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan

Noah by Gerda Mayer

Noah by James Reeves

Nobody Loves Me by Anon

Nobody Rides The Unicorn by Adrian Mitchell

Noses by Aileen Fisher

Old Noah's Ark

The Ostrich by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

The Painting Lesson by Trevor Harvey

Parrot by Alan Brownjohn

Peanut Butter Sandwich by Shel Silverstein

Penguin by Michael Richards

The Picture by Tony Bradman

A Rabbit Reveals My Room by Nancy Willard

Rainbow Chasers by Eric Finney

Rainy Nights by Irene Thompson

The Revolt Of the Clothes by Terry Jones

The Sea by John Masefield

The Sea Treasures by Daphne Lister

The Secret Place by Dennis Lee

Shallow Poem by Gerda Mayer

Sharing by Pie Corbett

Since Hanna Moved Away by Judith Viorst

Sing A Song Of People by Lois Lenski

Snapshotland by Sylvia Kantaris

Sneezes by Daphne Lister

Snow Lady by Mary Jeffries

Solid Water by Julie Holder

The Sound Collector by Roger McGough

Spaghetti by Frank Flynn

The Spare Room by Diana Hendry

Special Friends by Richard Roy Davies

The Stone Owl by Peter Bland

Storm by Barrie Wade

Strangeways by Roger McGough

Sunflakes by Frank Asch

Sunshine by Rose Flint

Teddy Bear by Aileen Fisher

Teddy Bear's Lament by Tim Price

Teeny Tiny Ghost by Lilian Moore

There Are Big Waves by Eleanor Farjeon

They Chose Me by Jamila Gavin

This Is The Day by June Crebbin

Through Nurseryland by Anon

Today is Very Boring by Jack Prelutsky

Tomorrow Is Another Day by Moira Andrew

Topsy Turvy Land byH. E. Wilkinson

A Tough Question by James Michie

Town Dog by David Orme

Trees Are Great by Roger McGough

Two Children by Spike Milligan

Two Little Kittens by Anon

Two Octopuses Got Married by Remy Charlip

The Underground Train by Jayne Spooner

Until I Saw The Sea by Lilian Moore

Upside Down by Aileen Fisher

Waking Up by Eleanor Farjeon

The Walk by Anon

Water Everywhere by Valerie Bloom

Ways Of The Wind by Joan Poulson

We Went To See Our Gran Today by Christopher Mann

What For by Noel Petty

What The Baby Says by Francesa Kay

When A Knight Won His Spurs by Jan Struther

When All The World's Asleep by Anita E. Posey

When There's A Fire In The Jungle by Martin Honeysett

Why Is It by John Foster

Why Is It by Max Fatchen

Windy Day by Mary Jeffries

Wings by Pie Corbett

Winter Wind by Jack Prelutsky

Word Party by Richard Edwards

A Year Of Faces by John Foster

You Can't Be That by Brian Patten

Young-Night Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson

Zodiac by Eleanor Farjeon

Lots of poetry, jokes and stories all about teddy bears here

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