Memorable Kid Poems


Hello, this is my list of a few poems kids might like to memorize.
Some people, like my Dad, say you
haven't really
appreciated a poem until you've memorized it.
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- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- Lord of the Rings
- El Dorado
- Nonsense Verse
- Alien
- Eyes in the back of my head
- The caterpillar ate in style
- The Little Hedgehog
- Limericks
- Dream Deferred
- I never saw a purple cow
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Top 10 Poems from Alysion's
Bucket List of Poems
to Read Before You Die
- 1. The Rainy Day by Henry W. Longfellow
- 2. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
- 3. A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
- 4. The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess
- 5. If by Rudyard Kipling
- 6. To See a World by William Blake
- 7. Ten Little Limericks
- 8. First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 9. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
- 10. I'm nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson