Children's poetry is as much for adults as children. For many of us, the first time we fell in love with a poem was as a child, and it has served to give us a life-long love of poetry.
- AA Milne - "Disobedience"
- AA Milne - "The Friend"
- AA Milne - "The King's Breakfast"
- AA Milne - "Lines and Squares"
- AA Milne - "Us Two"
- AA Milne - "Vespers"
- Anon - "Mr Nobody"
- Anon - "Sir Patrick Spens"
- Clement Clarke Moore - "The Night Before Christmas"
- Dr Seuss - "The Cat in the Hat"
- Edward Lear - "The Jumblies"
- Edward Lear - "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
- Edward Lear - "The Pobble Who Has No Toes"
- Hilaire Belloc - "Matilda"
- Hilaire Belloc - "Tarantella"
- Hughes Mearns - "Antigonish"
- HW Longfellow - "The Childrens hour"
- John Masefield - "Cargoes"
- John Masefield - "Sea-Fever"
- Lewis Carroll - "The Crocodile"
- Lewis Carroll - "Father William"
- Lewis Carroll - "Jabberwocky"
- Lewis Carroll - "The Lobster Quadrille"
- Lewis Carroll - "Walrus and the Carpenter"
- Lewis Carroll - "You Are Old, Father William"
- Mary Howitt - "The Spider And The Fly"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ozymandias"
- Roald Dahl - "The Dentist and the Crocodile"
- Roald Dahl - "Television"
- Robert Louis Stevenson - "From a Railway Carriage"
- Robert Louis Stevenson - "The Land of Nod"
- Robert Louis Stevenson - "Requiem"
- Shel Silverstein - "Bear In There"
- Thomas Hood - "November"
- TS Eliot - "Bustopher Jones"
- TS Eliot - "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats"
- TS Eliot - "Macavity, The Mystery Cat"
- Walter De La Mare - "The Listeners"
- WH Auden - "Night Mail"
- William Blake - "The Tyger"