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Louisa May Alcott		To The First Born (grades 1-3)
William Allingham		Robin Redbreast (grades 3-5)
Laurence Alma-Tadema		Playgrounds (grades 2-4)
Maya Angelou		Life Doesn't Frighten Me (grades 3-4)
Anonymous		The Cats of Kilkenny (grades 1-3)
		A Fly and a Flea in a Flue (grades 2-4)
		A Tutor Who Tooted the Flute (grades 2-4)
		A Young Lady of Lynn (grades 2-4)
		Boys and Girls Come out to Play (grades 2-4)
		I Raised a Great Hullabaloo (grades 2-4)
		The Codfish (grades 2-4)
		The Joke (grades 2-4)
		The March Wind (grades 2-4)
		The North Wind Doth Blow (grades 2-4)
		There Was a Young Lady Called Bright (grades 2-4)
		Two Little Kittens (grades 2-4)
		Have You Ever Seen? (grades 3-5)
		Little Clotilda (grades 3-5)
		There Was a Young Lady from Niger (grades 3-5)
		There Was a Young Maid (grades 3-5)
		To Be Answered in Our Next Issue (grades 3-5)
		Monday's Child (grades 4-6)
		When Mother Reads Aloud (grades 4-6)
John Kendrick Bangs		The Little Elf (grades 1-3)
Hilaire Belloc		Introduction: The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (grades 4-6)
Hillaire Belloc		The Vulture (grades 2-4)
Jane Euphemia Browne		The Rooks (grades 2-4)
Gelett Burgess		The Purple Cow (grades 2-3)
		Table Manners (grades 2-4)
Lewis Carroll		You Are Old, Father William (grades 5-6)
Alice Cary		November (grades 3-5)
Charles Causley		Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-Toast (grades 5-6)
Lydia Maria Child		The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day (grades 2-4)
Colley Cibber		The Blind Boy (grades 2-4)
Sara Coleridge		A Calendar (grades 3-5)
		Trees (grades 3-5)
Hilda Conkling		The Old Bridge (grades 3-5)
George Cooper		October's Party (grades 4-6)
Elizabeth T. Corbett		A Misspelled Tail (grades 3-5)
Alice Guerin Crist		Fairies (grades 3-5)
Sydney Dayre		A Lesson for Mamma (grades 3-5)
		Grandma's Lost Balance (grades 3-5)
C. J. Dennis		The Music of Your Voice (grades 4-6)
Emily Dickinson		Bee! I'm Expecting You! (grades 2-4)
		Hope is the Thing with Feathers (grades 2-4)
		The Grass so Little Has to Do (grades 2-4)
		Summer Shower (grades 3-5)
		Will There Really Be a Morning? (grades 3-5)
T. S. Eliot		Gus: The Theatre Cat (grades 5-6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson		We Thank Thee (grades 4-6)
Eugene Field		The Duel (grades 5-6)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman		The Ostrich (grades 3-5)
Kate Greenaway		On the Bridge (grades 3-5)
Edgar A. Guest		A Boy and His Dad (grades 3-6)
		Only a Dad (grades 3-6)
		Father (grades 4-6)
		The Perfect Dinner Table (grades 4-6)
Edgar Guest		Raisin Pie (grades 4-8)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans		Landing of the Pilgrims (grades 4-6)
Oliver Herford		The Crocodile (grades 3-5)
Heinrich Hoffman		The Story of Fidgety Philip (grades 2-4)
Thomas Hood		No! (grades 3-5)
Mary Howitt		The Sunshine (grades 3-5)
Joyce Kilmer		Trees (grades 4-6)
Rudyard Kipling		The Camel's Hump (grades 3-5)
Charles Lamb		Crumbs to the Birds (grades 3-5)
Charles and Mary Lamb		The First Tooth (grades 3-5)
Edward Lear		There Was an Old Man With a Beard (grades 3-5)
		The Quangle Wangle's Hat (grades 5-6)
Vachel Lindsay		The Little Turtle (grades 2-4)
Amy Lowell		Sea-shell (grades 2-4)
		The City of Falling Leaves (grades 3-5)
James Russell Lowell		The Fountain (grades 2-4)
		The First Snowfall (grades 3-5)
Walter de la Mare		Some One (grades 3-5)
Clement Clarke Moore		The Night before Christmas (grades 6-12)
Christopher Morely		Smells (grades 4-6)
Christopher Morley		Full Moon (grades 2-4)
		Animal Crackers (grades 3-5)
		Song for a Little House (grades 3-5)
Ogden Nash		The Dog (grades 1-3)
		Adventures of Isabel (grades 5-6)
Edith Nesbit		Baby Seed Song (grades 4-6)
Alfred Noyes		Daddy Fell into the Pond (grades 3-4)
Jack Prelutsky		Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face (grades 3-4)
Katharine Pyle		The Circus Parade (grades 2-4)
		Waking (grades 2-4)
William Brighty Rands		The Cat of Cats (grades 2-4)
		Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore (grades 3-5)
Thomas Buchanan Read		The Angler (grades 6-8)
Laura Elizabeth Richards		A Valentine (grades 3-5)
		After a Visit to the Natural History Museum (grades 3-5)
		Prince Tatters (grades 3-5)
Laura Richards		Eletelephony (grades 3-4)
		The Umbrella Brigade (grades 3-5)
Theodore Roethke		The Bat (grades 5-6)
Christina Rossetti		Clouds (grades 1-3)
Cristina Rossetti		The Rainbow (grades 3-5)
John G. Saxe		The Blind Men and the Elephant (grades 5-6)
Sir Walter Scott		Hunter's Song (grades 5-7)
Frank Dempster Sherman		Blossoms (grades 2-4)
		The Shadows (grades 2-4)
		Baseball (grades 3-5)
		Daisies (grades 3-5)
Shel Silverstein		Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (grades 5-6)
Cicely Fox Smith		Little Gorilla (grades 4-6)
Robert Louis Stevenson		The Swing (grades 1-3)
		Autumn Fires (grades 2-4)
		Bed in Summer (grades 2-4)
		My Shadow (grades 3-4)
		Foreign Lands (grades 3-5)
		Young Night Thought (grades 3-5)
		Picture Books in Winter (grades 4-6)
Ann Taylor		The Field Daisy (grades 2-4)
		The Spider (grades 2-4)
Sara Teasdale		The Falling Star (grades 2-4)
		The Coin (grades 3-5)
		Wishes (grades 3-5)
Alfred Lord Tennyson		Minnie and Winnie (grades 2-4)
		The Eagle (grades 2-4)
Unknown		A Serenade for New Year's Eve (grades 2-4)
		Mr. Nobody (grades 2-4)
		My Books (grades 3-5)
Judith Viorst		Mother Doesn't Want a Dog (grades 3-4)
Carolyn Wells		Our Club (grades 1-3)
		There Once Was a Corpulent Carp (grades 2-4)
		A Marvel (grades 3-5)
		An Intercepted Valentine (grades 3-5)
Amos R. Wells		The Ambitious Ant (grades 2-4)
		The Considerate Crocodile (grades 2-4)
John Greenleaf Whittier		Somehow, Not Only for Christmas (grades 3-5)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox		Wishing (grades 5-7)
Elinor Wylie		Silver Filigree (grades 3-5)

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High School Level Poem Units

Matthew Arnold		Dover Beach
W. H. Auden		The Unknown Citizen
William Blake		A Poison Tree
Elizabeth Barrett Browning		Sonnet 14, If Thou Must Love Me
Robert Browning		My Last Duchess
		The Laboratory
George Gordon Byron		The Destruction of Sennacherib
Lewis Carroll		Jabberwocky
Samuel Taylor Coleridge		The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Emily Dickinson		Because I Could Not Stop for Death
		‘Twas just this time last year I died
John Donne		A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
T. S. Eliot		The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Thomas Dunn English		Ben Bolt
Robert Frost		Mending Wall
William Lloyd Garrison		Freedom for the Mind
Thomas Hardy		Neutral Tones
Oliver Wendell Holmes		Old Ironsides
A. E. Housman		To an Athlete Dying Young
Langston Hughes		Mother to Son
John Keats		Ode on a Grecian Urn
Rudyard Kipling		The Ballad of East and West
Charles and Mary Lamb		Anger
D. H. Lawrence		Snake
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		A Psalm of Life
		Paul Revere's Ride
		The Skeleton in Armor
Amy Lowell		Patterns
Walter Malone		Opportunity
Andrew Marvell		To His Coy Mistress
John Masefield		Sea-Fever
Navarre Scott Momaday		The Earth
Pablo Neruda		"Tonight I Can Write" or "Poem 20"
Alfred Noyes		The Highwayman
Maurice Ogden		The Hangman
Wilfred Owen		Dulce Et Decorum Est
Edgar Allan Poe		The Raven
James Whitcomb Riley		When the Frost is on the Punkin
Edwin Arlington Robinson		Richard Cory
Carl Sandburg		Chicago
Sir Walter Scott		Lochinvar
Robert W. Service		The Cremation of Sam McGee
Anne Sexton		Cinderella
Percy Bysshe Shelley		Ozymandias
Edward Rowland Sill		The Fool's Prayer
Gary Soto		Oranges
Alfred, Lord Tennyson		The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ernest Lawrence Thayer		Casey at the Bat
Dylan Thomas		Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Rose Hartwick Thorpe		Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
unknown		Two Pictures
John Updike		Ex-Basketball Player
John Greenleaf Whittier		Maud Muller
Oscar Wilde		The Ballad of Reading Gaol
William Wordsworth		The World Is Too Much With Us
Richard Wright		Between the World and Me
William Butler Yeats		The Circus Animals' Desertion
		The Second Coming

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