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Here are links to a few websites to help you find a poem!
Poetry Links:
Poets.org
(click on "browse poems and poets")
Shmoop Poetry
(click on the letters to look at different poems)
Poets' Corner
(look at the links on the left side of page to search poems by topic)
Poetry in Nature
(many topics about nature)
Family Friendly Poems
(look at the links on the right side of page to search poems by topic)
Giggle Poetry
(for humorous poems)
Click on the links below to read the following poems:
Animal Poems
"A Crocodile"
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
"The Tyger"
by William Blake
"The Crocodile"
by Roald Dahl
"The Pig"
by Roald Dahl - for a trio
"Darwin's Finches"
by Deborah Digges
"The Dog (As Seen by the Cat)"
by Oliver Herford
"Grasshopper"
by Ron Padgett
"After a Visit to the Natural History Museum"
by Laura Elizabeth Richards
"Bertie the Goldfish"
by Ross D. Tyler
Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) and Strength Poems
"A Psalm of Life"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - for a pair
"High Flight"
by John G. Magee, Jr.
Childhood Poems
"A Strange Wild Song"
by Lewis Carroll
"Jabberwocky"
by Lewis Carroll
"Babylon"
by Robert Graves - for a group
"A Child's Garden"
by Rudyard Kipling
"The Gingham Umbrella"
by Laura Elizabeth Richards
"Block City"
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Missing Pen"
by Ross D. Tyler
"Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About"
by Judith Viorst
Death/Grief/War Poems
"For the Fallen"
by Laurence Binyon
"A Poison Tree"
by William Blake
"1914 V: The Soldier"
by Rupert Brooke
"Dreamland"
by Lewis Carroll
"Because I could not stop for Death"
by Emily Dickinson
"No Man Is An Island"
by John Donne
"A Late Walk"
by Robert Frost
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
by Dylan Thomas
"O Captain! My Captain"
by Walt Whitman
Gratitude/Thanks/Thoughtful Poems
"Why We Tell Stories"
by Lisel Mueller - for a trio
"Dusting"
by Marilyn Nelson
Love Poems
"To Dorothy"
by Marvin Bell
"How Do I Love Thee"
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"A Birthday"
by Christina Rossetti
Nature and Seasonal Poems
"October"
by Robert Frost
"Snow in the Suburbs"
by Thomas Hardy
"In April"
by James Hearst
"Snow-flakes"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern"
by David McCord
"The Snow Man"
by Wallace Stevens
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
by William Wordsworth
Sports Poems
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
by A. E. Housman - for a pair
"Casey at the Bat"
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer - for a pair
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