$t First book / $r Rita Dove
$t Quarrel / $r Maxine Kumin
$t Letter to Bee / $r Emily Dickinson
$t Hurt no living thing / $r Christina Rossetti
$t Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / $r Robert Frost
$t Wolf / $r Billy Collins
$t Tiger who wore white gloves / $r Gwendolyn Brooks
$g from $t "Adventures of Isabel" / $r Ogden Nash
$t On a flimmering floom you shall ride / $r Carl Sandburg
$t El chicle / $r Ana Castillo
$t Dentist and the crocodile / $r Roald Dahl
$t Bear song / $r Kay Ryan
$t Jabberwocky / $r Lewis Carroll
$t Sneeze / $r Maxine Kumin
$t Mrs. Mitchell's underwear / $r Dennis Lee
$t Okay, brown girl, okay / $r James Berry
$t Vowel owl (Roger) / $r John Hollander
$t Magic words / $r Anonymous Inuit Poet, $g trans. by $r Edward Field
$t Unwritten / $r W.S. Merwin
$t Crayons : a rainbow poem / $r Jane Yolen
$t Gas / $r C.K. Williams
$t Knitted things / $r Karla Kuskin
$g from $t Macbeth / $r William Shakespeare
$t Frodo's song in Bree / $r J.R.R. Tolkien
$t Eagle poem / $r Joy Harjo
$t Negro speaks of rivers / $r Langston Hughes
$t I rise, I rise / $r Anonymous Osage poet
$g Verses from $t "Elephant's child" / $r Rudyard Kipling
$t Alphabet, pt. 1 / $r Seamus Heaney
$t John Smith and his son, John Smith / $r Wallace Stevens
$t About the teeth of sharks / $r John Ciardi
$t Dinosaur diets / $r Jane Yolen
$t My sister saw a dinosaur / $r Mary Ann Hoberman
$t Joey / $r Brad Leithauser
$t Rabbit / $r Mary Ann Hoberman
$t At last / $r James Stevenson
$t Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to His Royal Highness / $r Alexander Pope
$t Balloons / $r William Jay Smith
$t Hide and seek / $r Robert Graves.
$t Every time I climb a tree / $r David McCord
$t The reason I like chocolate / $r Nikki Giovanni
$t Trips / $r Nikki Giovanni
$t Mommies / $r Nikki Giovanni
$t Lineage / $r Margaret Walker
$t Snowmen / $r Agha Shahid Ali
$t Good luck gold / $r Janet S. Wong
$t The secret song / $r Margaret Wise Brown
$t Why? / $r James Stevenson
$t The question / $r Karla Kuskin
$t First grade / $r William Stafford
$t Crying / $r Galway Kinnell
$t Art class / $r X.J. Kennedy
$t How to paint a donkey / $r Naomi Shihab Nye
$t Daddy fell into the pond / $r Alfred Noyes
$t Working with mother / $r Myra Cohn Livingston
$t A faery song / $r W.B. Yeats
$t The unicorn / $r Rainer Maria Rilke, $g translated by $r Paul Muldoon
$t The lion and the lily / $r Elizabeth Spires
$t hist whist / $r E.E. Cummings
$t The ghost and Jenny Jemima / $r Dennis Lee
$g from $t "The raven" / Edgar Allan Poe
$t Sheep party / $r John Fuller
$t Jamacian song / $r James Berry
$t Halfway down / $r A.A. Milne
$t Count to ten and we'll be there / $r Rita Dove
$t opposite poem 4 / $r Richard Wilbur
$t opposite poems 7 and 20 / $r Richard Wilbur
$g from $t "The tale of Custard the Dragon" / $r Ogden Nash
$t Good hot dogs / $r Sandra Cisneros
$t Lies, all lies / $r William Cole
$t Which is the best? / $r James Stevenson
$t Casey at the bat / $r Ernest L. Thayer
$t The testing tree, pt. 1 / $r Stanley Kunitz
$t Skating in the wind / $r Kristine O'Connell George
$t A poem for Jesse / $r Sonia Sanchez
$t To P.J. / $r Sonia Sanchez
$t Valentine / $r Donald Hall
$t Summer / $r W.D. Snodgrass
$t Winter / $r W.D. Snodgrass
$t The sun has a tail / $r Emanuel di Pasquale
$t Knoxville, Tennessee / $r Nikki Giovanni
$t I am cherry alive / $r Delmore Schwartz
$t The tyger / $r William Blake
$t Conversation with a mouse / $r Robert Bly
$t On turning ten / $r Billy Collins
$t How to stay up late / $r X.J. Kennedy
$t Flashlight / $r X.J. Kennedy
$t Maturity / $r X.J. Kennedy
$t Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / $r Eugene Field
$t Little / $r Dorothy Aldis
$t Two in bed / $r Abram Bunn Ross
$t Brother / $r Mary Ann Hoberman
$t The land of counterpane / $r Robert Louis Stevenson
$g from $t "The bed book" / $r Sylvia Plath
$t The coming of teddy bears / $r Dennis Lee.
