Poems for kids use easy language that is suitable for their comprehension level. Funny elements make these poems more enjoyable and memorable.
Repetition of words, phrases, or lines can be used to reinforce key ideas and make the poem more engaging.
It also aids in language learning and memory. Poems for kids explore themes that resonate with their experiences, such as friendship, family, animals, nature, and daily activities.
Let’s read some special poems for kids.
Children’s poems often explore themes that resonate with their experiences, such as friendship, family, animals, nature, and daily activities.
“The Purple Cow”
By Gelett Burgess
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one!
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,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!
“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.
There Was An Old Man With A Beard”
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said “It is just how I feared—
Two Owls and a hen,
Four Larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
“Star Light, Star Bright”
Star light, start bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
“If All the World Were Apple Pie”
By Mother Goose
If all the world were apple pie,
And all the sea were ink,
And all the trees were bread and cheese,
What should we have to drink?
“Leap Year Poem”
By Mother Goose
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone.
And that has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
“At The Zoo”
By William Makepeace Thackeray
First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;
Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;
Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw;
Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw;
Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk;
Then I saw the monkeys—mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!
There Was An Old Woman
By Mother Goose
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn’t know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Kissed them all fondly and sent them to bed.
“The Mulberry Bush”
By Walter Crane
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush;
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
All on a frosty morning…
This is the way we clap our hands,
This is the way we clap our hands,
This is the way we clap our hands,
All on a frosty morning.!
“Bed In Summer”
By Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
“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,
And the grass with dew is wet,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveler in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see where to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveler in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star..!
“The Boy Who Never Told A Lie
Once there was a little boy,
With curly hair and pleasant eye—
A boy who always told the truth,
And never, never told a lie.
And when he trotted off to school,
The children all about would cry,
“There goes the curly-headed boy—
The boy that never tells a lie.”
And everybody loved him so,
Because he always told the truth,
That every day, as he grew up,
‘Twas said, “There goes the honest youth.”
And when the people that stood near,
Would turn to ask the reason why,
The answer would be always this:
“Because he never tells a lie.”
“Little Things”
By Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,
And the pleasant land.
So the little moments,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages,
Of Eternity.
So the little errors,
Lead the soul away,
From the paths of virtue,
Far in sin to stray.
Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Help to make Earth happy,
Like the Heaven above.
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