Year 1
Child’s Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson online
Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young A.A. Milne
Oxford Book of Children’s Verse Iona and Peter Opie, or AO’s expanded and re-organized collection of over 200 classic children’s poems.
Available by month, 20 poems per page (click Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec) or as a single document.
Year 2
Walter De La Mare
Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley
Sing Song Christina Rossetti
Year 3
William Blake (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
Sara Teasdale and Hilda Conkling
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
Year 4
Alfred Tennyson biography (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
Emily Dickinson biography (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
William Wordsworth (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
Year 5
Rudyard Kipling (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (repeated in Year 5 because his longer poems are historically appropriate for this year) (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
John Greenleaf Whittier and Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Year 6
Robert Frost (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
Carl Sandburg (optional: book from the Poetry For Young People series available; see note above)
Alfred Noyes a few poems online
Term 3’s poems aren’t selected yet; until then, you might enjoy these 59 poems