Read and Rate these Classic Children's Poems

Here are the most recently added classic children's poems for you to read and rate. I post more classic poems regularly, so please check back often. Have fun!

If You Ever Meet a Whale by Anonymous
If You Ever Meet a Whale
by Anonymous
The Early Owl by Oliver Herford
The Early Owl
by Oliver Herford
Jeremy Jangle by William Brighty Rands
Jeremy Jangle
by William Brighty Rands

Predjudice
by Charlotte Perkins Stetson

The Swing
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Old Mother Hubbard
by Anonymous

At the Zoo
by A.A. Milne

The Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll

A Great Lady
by Carolyn Wells

An Assortment of Short Poems
by Gelett Burgess

The Pobble Who Has No Toes
by Edward Lear
The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet by Guy Wetmore Carryl
The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet
by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Most Popular Classic Poems

Right now, these are the most popular classic children's poems on the website, as rated by you! These will change as you rate more poems!


There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
by Anonymous

The Animal Store
by Rachel Field

A Tiger's Tale
by John Bennett

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
by Eugene Field

A Great Lady
by Carolyn Wells

Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll

Hush Little Baby
by Anonymous

Eletelephony
by Laura E. Richards

Ned Nott and Sam Shott
by Anonymous

My Bed Is a Boat
by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Elf and the Dormouse
by Oliver Herford

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
by Jane Taylor

Lots of Classic Poems...

And here are a whole lot more classic children's poems. These poems are also ranked by popularity (with the most popular ones at the top), so don't be surprised if they change position when you rate them.


Table Manners
by Gelett Burgess

There Was a Young Fellow Named Hall
by Anonymous

The Rhinoceros
by Oliver Herford

A Visit from St. Nicholas
by Clement Clark Moore

Antigonish
by Hughes Mearns

The Butter Betty Bought
by Carolyn Wells

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost

At the Zoo
by A.A. Milne

The Swing
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Antonio
by Laura E. Richards

Holding Hands
by Leonore M. Link

In Praise of Llamas
by Arthur Guiterman

The Purple Cow
by Gelett Burgess

The Early Owl
by Oliver Herford

You Are Old, Father William
by Lewis Carroll

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
by Edward Lear

Clouds
by Christina Rossetti

Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion
by Hillaire Belloc

The Owl and the Pussycat
by Edward Lear

How Doth the Little Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll

The King's Breakfast
by A.A. Milne

The Tyger
by William Blake

Habits of the Hippopotamus
by Arthur Guiterman

Bed in Summer
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Pittypat and Tipppytoe
by Eugene Field

The Mad Gardener's Song
by Lewis Carroll

An Assortment of Short Poems
by Gelett Burgess

Old Mother Hubbard
by Anonymous

Little Bo Peep
by Anonymous

The Walrus and the Carpenter
by Lewis Carroll

Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably
by Hillaire Belloc

The Dying Fisherman's Song
by Anonymous

Predjudice
by Charlotte Perkins Stetson

My Dream
by Anonymous

My Shadow
by Robert Louis Stevenson

If You Ever Meet a Whale
by Anonymous

The Little Peach
by Eugene Field

The Crocodile
by Oliver Herford

The Jumblies
by Edward Lear

Over the River and through the Wood
by Lydia Maria Child

From a Railway Carriage
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Daddy Fell into the Pond
by Alfred Noyes

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
by Robert Service

Paul Revere's Ride
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The House that Jack Built
by Anonymous

The Wond'rous Wise Man
by Anonymous

At the Zoo
by William Makepeace Thackery

Mr. Nobody
by Anonymous

The Walloping Window-Blind
by Charles Edward Carryl

The Pobble Who Has No Toes
by Edward Lear

The Unfortunate Giraffe
by Oliver Herford

The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
by Edward Lear

Theme in Yellow
by Carl Sandburg

The Tutor
by Carolyn Wells

Jeremy Jangle
by William Brighty Rands

Little Boy Blue
by Anonymous

The Camel's Complaint
by Charles Edward Carryl

The Land of Nod
by Robert Louis Stevenson

I Eat My Peas with Honey
by Anonymous

The Answers
by Robert Clairmont

The Ostrich
by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Mary's Lamb
by Sarah Josepha Hale

The Hunting of the Snark
by Lewis Carroll

The Duel
by Eugene Field

Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore
by William Brighty Rands

Little Orphant Annie
by James Whitcomb Riley

The Cremation of Sam McGee
by Robert Service

Memorumdrums
by Charles Edward Carryl

The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet
by Guy Wetmore Carryl

There Was a Little Girl
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I Saw Esau
by Anonymous