Do you remember eagerly turning over the pages of a new Shel Silverstein book as a child? It’s important to begin encouraging a love of poetry as early as preschool or elementary school. However, it’s also important to remember that poetry can be an intimidating subject to learn (or teach!). How can we make it easier? By sharing some of the best and most inspiring famous poems with students.
Roald Dahl and even Maya Angelou have some great works to introduce poetry concepts to the youngest readers. As students move on to middle school, inspire them with Robert Frost and contemporary poets like Amanda Gorman. By high school, it’s time to delve into famous poems from Shakespeare, as well as unconventional works from poets like Sylvia Plath. Even Tupac gets a mention on our list! Check out our favorite famous poems for students of all ages.
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves …”
“Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime …”
“Shadows on the wall …”
“So I think I’ll be six now …”
“A little light is going by …”
“The world is so full of a number of things …”
“Tornadoes blew my notes away …”
“and maggie discovered a shell that sang …”
“Build for yourself a strong box …”
“Black fish, Blue fish, Old fish, New fish …”
“Hey, Willie Winkie, are ye comin’ ben? …”
“I’d rather see than be one …”
“Take your books on the roof, my lamb …”
“The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea …”
“Matilda told such dreadful lies …”
“He went and knocked on Grandma’s door …”
“You tell me it is too early to be looking back …”
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood …”
“I was four in this photograph fishing …”
“Welcome to the endless High-School …”
“The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day …”
“Some say the world will end in fire …”
“I tend the mobile now …”
“Walking through a field with my little brother Seth …”
“We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny black girl …”
“I, too, sing America …”
” Nothing. When we realized you weren’t here …”
“Thou art more lovely and more temperate …”
“Are you – Nobody – too? …”
“The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees …”
“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair …”
“The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide …”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself …”
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light …”
“You may write me down in history …”
“Nature’s first green is gold …”
“We real cool. We / left school …”
“Your life is your life …”
“Long live the rose that grew from concrete …”
“If you can keep your head when all about you …”
“My stepdaughter and I circle round and round …”
“What once was meant to be a statement …”
“My brother kept / in a frame on the wall …”
“There’s just no accounting for happiness …”
“Why, who makes much of a miracle? …”
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd …”
“And sings the tune without the words …”
“Sometimes love just wants to go for a nice long walk …”
“A woman has a window in her face: that is the truth …”
“Deny thy father and refuse thy name …”
“A sort of walking miracle, my skin …”
“The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them …”
“but now he’s gone with his shaggy coat …”
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