Best Short Poems for Kids- Workybooks

1st Grade Poetry 

Try these poems out for your next first-grade read-aloud!  For free printable copies please create an account on www.workybooks.com and sign in. 

The Rainbow Poem

More first-grade poems coming soon!!!

2nd Grade Poetry 

Second Grade Sonneteers enjoy these free poetry worksheet printables:

• To My Little Brother
• What if I Imagine

3rd Grade Poetry

Third Grade Laureates will enjoy these printable titles:

• Can’t I Have a Lazy Day
• If it Were Up to Me
• Summer Poetry
• Animal Parade

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Famous Poems for Kids:

Here is some seriously famous poetry for kids. 

Funny poems:

Hands down my favorite children’s poet is Shel Silverstein! Silverstein poems to try: Short kid, Homework Machine, Magic, Falling Up, and Masks.

Animal Poems

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!

Other Poems:

My Teacher Isn’t Half as Nice as Yours Seems to Be

By: Roald Dahl

“My teacher wasn’t half as nice as yours seems to be.

His name was Mister Unsworth and he taught us history.

And when you didn’t know a date he’d get you by the ear

And start to twist while you sat there quite paralysed with fear.

He’d twist and twist and twist your ear and twist it more and more.

Until at last the ear came off and landed on the floor.

Our class was full of one-eared boys. I’m certain there were eight.

Who’d had them twisted off because they didn’t know a date.

So let us now praise teachers who today are all so fine

And yours in particular is totally divine.”

Also try: I had a Little Tree Nut

 I, Too, Sing America

By: Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I’ll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody’ll dare

Say to me,

“Eat in the kitchen,”

Then.

Besides,

They’ll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

Also try: Park Bench

At the Sea Side

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was down beside the sea

A wooden spade they gave to me

To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.

In every hole the sea came up

Till it could come no more.

Celery By: Ogden Nash

Celery, raw

Develops the jaw,

But celery, stewed,

Is more quietly chewed.

Also by Ogden Nash: The Adventures of Isabel

Nature Poems

A Bird Came Down the Walk 

By: Emily Dickinson:

A Bird, came down the Walk – 

He did not know I saw –

He bit an Angle Worm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw, 

And then, he drank a Dew

From a convenient Grass –

And then hopped sidewise to the Wall

To let a Beetle pass –

He glanced with rapid eyes,

That hurried all abroad –

They looked like frightened Beads, I thought,

He stirred his Velvet Head. – 

Like one in danger, Cautious,

I offered him a Crumb,

And he unrolled his feathers, 

And rowed him softer Home –

Than Oars divide the Ocean,

Too silver for a seam,

Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,

Leap, splashes as they swim. 

Also try by Dickenson: Nature is What We See

What are some of your favorite poems?