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Poems

Read them out loud. Then read them again. 80 in the Reading Room.

Grades K-2

20 titles
Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-2poem From a Railway Carriage Robert Louis Stevenson Grades 1-4poem The Jumblies Edward Lear Grades 2-4poem The Lamplighter Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-3poem The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-2poem Limericks (set) Edward Lear Grades 1-4poem Mother Goose: Animal Rhymes Traditional Grades K-1poem Mother Goose: Counting Rhymes Traditional Grades K-1poem Mother Goose: People Rhymes Traditional Grades K-1poem Mother Goose: Weather and Seasons Traditional Grades K-1poem My Shadow Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-2poem The Owl and the Pussy-cat Edward Lear Grades K-3poem Poems from Now We Are Six (set) A. A. Milne Grades K-3poem Poems from When We Were Very Young (set) A. A. Milne Grades K-2poem Sing-Song: rhymes (set) Christina Rossetti Grades K-2poem The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-2poem Where Go the Boats? Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-2poem The Wind Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-2poem Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson Grades K-3poem Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Eugene Field Grades K-3poem

Grades 3-5

18 titles
"Hope" is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson Grades 5-12poem The Bells Edgar Allan Poe Grades 5-9poem Dreams Langston Hughes Grades 4-12poem Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe Grades 5-9poem Fog Carl Sandburg Grades 3-8poem I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman Grades 5-12poem I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson Grades 5-12poem In Flanders Fields John McCrae Grades 5-12poem Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll Grades 4-8poem Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson Grades 4-12poem Mother to Son Langston Hughes Grades 5-12poem The Pasture Robert Frost Grades 3-8poem Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Grades 4-8poem Rainbow Gold (selected poems for young readers) Sara Teasdale (editor) Grades 4-8poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost Grades 5-12poem There is no frigate like a book Emily Dickinson Grades 4-10poem The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Grades 4-8poem The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll Grades 3-6poem

Grades 6-8

27 titles
A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-12poem A narrow fellow in the grass Emily Dickinson Grades 6-12poem Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe Grades 7-12poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay Grades 7-12poem Barter Sara Teasdale Grades 6-12poem Caroling Dusk: Harlem Renaissance poems (selected) Countee Cullen (editor) Grades 8-12poem The Creation James Weldon Johnson Grades 6-12poem Dream Variations Langston Hughes Grades 6-12poem Fire and Ice Robert Frost Grades 7-12poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth Grades 6-12poem I, Too Langston Hughes Grades 6-12poem Incident Countee Cullen Grades 8-12poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats Grades 7-12poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes Grades 7-12poem Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost Grades 6-12poem O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman Grades 6-12poem Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley Grades 8-12poem The Raven Edgar Allan Poe Grades 7-12poem The Road Not Taken Robert Frost Grades 7-12poem Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Grades 8-12poem The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats Grades 7-12poem Success is counted sweetest Emily Dickinson Grades 8-12poem Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar Grades 8-12poem There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale Grades 6-12poem The Tiger William Blake Grades 6-12poem We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar Grades 8-12poem When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman Grades 7-12poem

Grades 9-12

15 titles
"Out, Out—" Robert Frost Grades 10-12poem America Claude McKay Grades 10-12poem Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson Grades 9-12poem Birches Robert Frost Grades 9-12poem Chicago Carl Sandburg Grades 9-12poem The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost Grades 10-12poem Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen Grades 9-12poem First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay Grades 9-12poem Heritage Countee Cullen Grades 11-12poem If We Must Die Claude McKay Grades 10-12poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot Grades 11-12poem Mending Wall Robert Frost Grades 9-12poem The Prophet (selected chapters) Kahlil Gibran Grades 9-12poem Song of Myself (sections 1 to 6) Walt Whitman Grades 10-12poem The Weary Blues Langston Hughes Grades 9-12poem