Following is another wonderful poem that kids will enjoy, adding to the Poetry For Young Children series on this blog. You may enjoy previous posts from this series: My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Rum Tum Tugger by T.S. Eliot. Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Amazon.com, and …
One of the subjects I’d like to add to our routine is poetry. I confess that while I appreciate poetry, it has been neglected here! My daughter really enjoys it, and I know it is good for her little brain. To remedy the situation I’ve set a new goal: read …
If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, …
A Mother’s Influence What Rules The World They say a man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O’er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand …
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that …
It’s been almost 100 degrees here in Alabama the last few days…this poem helps me think of cooler weather… Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch …
“In a letter to his brother and his wife, October 24, 1818, Keats says: ‘If I had a prayer to make for any great good…it should be that one of your children should be the first American Poet. I have a great mind to make a prophecy, and they say …
The Rock and the Bubble A poem by Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888 / Pennsylvania / United States) Oh! a bare, brown rock Stood up in the sea, The waves at its feet Dancing merrily. A little bubble Once came sailing by, And thus to the rock Did it …