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4 Ways to Incorporate Poetry ~ Resources

21 Apr 202211 May 2022

Poetry? Depending on the age of the student, the word might draw a blank look, an unhappy expression, or a dark scowl! If we do this right, from the beginning,…

The Children’s Own Longfellow ~ Free eBook

28 Mar 202211 May 2022

Longfellow has long been a favorite of homeschool moms. Because of the concrete storytelling element, his poems make an easy introduction to poetry. The Children's Own Longfellow is an illustrated…

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“The Cloud” by Shelley

17 Mar 202211 May 2022

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,From the seas and the streams;I bear light shade for the leaves when laidIn their noon-day dreams.From my wings are shaken the dews…

Activity: Rhyming Couplets

16 Sep 202120 Sep 2021

Over time we will be adding activities that focus on helping your child/student write something every day. Let's start off with something really simple: rhyming couplets. Rhyming couplets are two…

The Night Before Christmas and Other Christmas Stories ~ Free eBook

7 Dec 202017 Nov 2021

You may enjoy this cute collection of Christmas stories for children. The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories for Children is a free eBook containing 16 short stories and…

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"The Snow-Storm" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 Nov 202028 Oct 2021

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight; the whited airHides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,And veils…

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"Birches" by Robert Frost

When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them…

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"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. ‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws…

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"The Pedigree of Honey" by Emily Dickinson

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. Poems by Emily Dickinson (1891) | Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) Online Poetry Anthology Suggestions…

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"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

1 Oct 202028 Sep 2021

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the…

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"The Eagle" by Tennyson

24 Sep 202027 Aug 2021

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like…

Poems Every Child Should Know ~ Free eBook

21 Sep 20202 Sep 2021

I don't know about you but I tend to bristle over the word should. That aside, this really is a book of poetry most children will enjoy! Poems Every Child…

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"Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World" by William Brighty Rands

17 Sep 202027 Aug 2021

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,With the wonderful water round you curled,And the wonderful grass upon your breast—World, you are beautifully drest.The wonderful air is over me,And the wonderful wind is…

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"The Skylark" by John Clare

Above the russet clods, the corn is seen Sprouting its spiry points of tender green, Where squats the hare, to terrors wide awake, Like some brown clod the harrows failed…

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"The Sandpiper" by Celia Thaxter

Across the narrow beach we flit,One little sandpiper and I,And fast I gather, bit by bit,The scattered driftwood bleached and dry.The wild waves reach their hands for it,The wild wind…

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"L'oiseau bleu" by Coleridge

The lake lay blue below the hill.O'er it, as I looked, there flewAcross the waters, cold and still,A bird whose wings were palest blue.The sky above was blue at last,The…

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"Boats Sail on the Rivers" by Christina G. Rossetti

Boats sail on the rivers,And ships sail on the seas;But clouds that sail across the skyAre prettier far than these.There are bridges on the rivers,As pretty as you please;But the…

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"Fog" by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg (1916) | Carl Sandburg…

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"The Lamb" by William Blake

Little lamb, who made thee?Does thou know who made thee,Gave thee life, and bid thee feedBy the stream and o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing, woolly, bright;Gave thee…

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"Trees" by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all day,And…

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"A Bird Came Down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson

18 Jun 202014 Jun 2022

A bird came down the walk:He did not know I saw;He bit an angle-worm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw.And then he drank a dewFrom a convenient grass,And then hopped…

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"The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear

21 May 202028 Apr 2022

I.The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea-green boat:They took some honey, and plenty of moneyWrapped up in a five-pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars…

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"To a Skylark" by Percy Shelley

16 Apr 202020 Apr 2022

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From…

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"April Rain" by Robert Loveman

9 Apr 202020 Apr 2022

It isn't raining rain to me,It's raining daffodils;In every dimpled drop I seeWild flowers on the hills.The clouds of gray engulf the day,And overwhelm the town;It isn't raining rain to…

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“The Wind” by Robert Louis Stevenson

2 Apr 202020 Apr 2022

The Wind I saw you toss the kites on highAnd blow the birds about the sky;And all around I heard you pass,Like ladies' skirts across the grass—O wind, a-blowing all…

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“Who Has Seen the Wind” by Christina G. Rossetti

Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing thro'. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But…

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