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  1. Short Poems for Children. Including funny rhyming poems, poems about nature and animals, Poems about School. Inspiring and Famous poems. Poems by kids and poems for kids. Short poems simple to memorize and recite.

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  2. Mar 25, 2024 · Poetry for children can be amusing, silly, or rhyming -- anything that gets them interested. Short poems for kids are wonderful gateways to a world of imagination and language. These poems, with their rhythmic patterns and vivid imagery, are perfect for capturing young minds.

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    • “The Mountain and the Squirrel” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The mountain and the squirrel. Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter. “Little prig.” Bun replied,
    • “The Crocodile” by Lewis Carroll. How doth the little crocodile. Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile. On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin,
    • “Hey Diddle Diddle” by Walter Crane. Hey diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow skipt over the moon; The little dog laughed to see the fine sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
    • “The Star” by Jane Taylor. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. When the blazing sun is set,
    • At The Zoo by William Makepeace Thackeray
    • Star Light, Star Bright by Anonymous
    • There Was An Old Person Whose Habits by Edward Lear
    • What Are Heavy by Christina Rossetti
    • Tommy by Gwendolyn Brooks

    “Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk; Then I saw the monkeys—mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!”

    “Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight.”

    “There was an Old Person whose habits, Induced him to feed upon rabbits; When he’d eaten eighteen, He turned perfectly green, Upon which he relinquished those habits.”

    “What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow: What are brief? today and tomorrow: What are frail? spring blossoms and youth: What are deep? the ocean and truth.”

    “I put my seed into the ground And said, ‘I’ll watch it grow.’ I watered it and cared for it As well as I could know.”

  3. On this page you'll find a selection of gorgeous short rhyming poems for children. Many of them are the traditional nursery rhymes you probably remember from your own childhood. Others may be new to you.

  4. Mar 20, 2024 · 35 Rhyming Poems For Kids. Poems can nurture the creative spirits of your little one with tenderness and familiarity. Rhyming poems are appealing to children and make their free time fun. 1. From A Railway Carriage, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

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