104 Poems of Whimsey and Wisdom To Delight Children of All Ages by Amy Lykosh
- To My Favorite Honeydew by Author Unknown
- Mix a Pancake by Christina Rossetti
- Animal Crackers by Christopher Morley
- The Twelve Months by George Ellis
- The Months by Christina Rossetti
- Mattina/Morning by Giuseppe Ungaretti
- When the Sun Rises by Author Unknown, China
- Ducks’ Ditty by Kenneth Grahame
- Four Ducks on a Pond by William Allingham
- Not They Who Soar by Paul Laurence Dunbar (track 13)
- ‘Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
- The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Tyger by William Blake–assorted options, we liked the center one best, but I think it was also the scariest.
- The Crocodile by Louis Carroll
- A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson
- High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
- The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, by William Wordsworth
- The Rainbow by Christina Rossetti
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
- No Man Ever Steps in the Same River Twice by Heraclitus
- What is Pink by Christina Rossetti
- What are Heavy by Christina Rossetti
- from “Commissariat Camels” by Rudyard Kipling
- Seldom “Can’t” by Christina Rossetti
- Monotone by Carl Sandburg
- from “Rain in Summer” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (the printed poem is about the first minute of the full poem shown here).
- Caterpillar by Christina Rossetti
- Haiku by Arakida Moritake
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
- from “She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways” by William Wordsworth
- If You Would Not Be Forgotten by Benjamin Franklin
- A Toadstool Comes Up in a Night by Christina Rossetti
- A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
- Be Like a Bird by Victor Hugo (lyrics aren’t an exact match but lovely nonetheless)
- The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
- Some One by Walter de la Mare
- The Elf and the Dormouse by Oliver Herford
- Missing by A. A. Milne
- Fog by Carl Sandburg
- Last Answers by Carl Sandburg
- Cat and Crocuses by Eva Martin
- from “The Kitten and the Falling Leaves” by William Wordsworth
- Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Morns Are Meeker Than They Were by Emily Dickinson
- After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost
- New Sights by Author Unknown
- Algy Met a Bear by Author Unknown
- There Was a Young Lady of Niger by William Cosmo Monkhouse
- A Bird, Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
- The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats
- The Swan by Author Unknown/
- There is No Frigate, Like a Book by Emily Dickinson
- Where My Books Go by W. B. Yeats
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer (Disney version, 1946, takes a LOT of liberties with the poem)
- Option 2, includes both Casey at the Bat and Casey 20 Years Later
- The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service
- He Ate and Drank the Precious Words by Emily Dickinson
- But Words are Things by Lord Byron
- The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Young Sea by Carl Sandburg
- Over Wintery Wind-Whipped Waves by Author Unknown
- Spellbound by Emily Brontë
- Icicles by Author Unknown
- To the Thawing Wind by Robert Frost
- A Time to Talk by Robert Frost
- The Pasture by Robert Frost
- Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
- Sweet and Low by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
- Loveliest of the Trees, the Cherry Now by A.E. Housman
- Barter by Sara Teasdale
- My People by Langston Hughes
- Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti
- I Wish by Author Unknown
- To Make a Prairie It Takes a Clover and One Bee by Emily Dickinson
- The Blackbird by Humbert Wolfe
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8S-0wGVYuAby Robert Frost
- Between Two Hills by Carl Sandburg
- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (by Rober Frost!)
- Spring by William Blake
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats (by Yeats!)
- The Poem by Amy Lowell
- Flint by Christina Rossetti
- The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams (by Williams)
- Haiku by Yosa Buson
- from “Night” by William Blake (the selection is found in the first 45 seconds, the poem does get bleaker as it goes on)
- Buffalo Dusk by Carl Sandburg
- A Coin by Carl Sandburg
- To a Child: Written in Her Album by William Wordsworth
- If by Rudyard Kipling
- Sea Fever by John Masefield
- No Man Is an Island by John Donne
- Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
- Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
- Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti
- In Beauty May I Walk: a Diné (Navajo) Prayer, Traditional
- The Oak by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Epitaph of Young Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- I Think Over Again My Small Adventures by Author Unknown, North American Indian (In original language)
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost