Poetry
April Showers, bring May Flowers! It's April and Spring has Sprung. Let's get started on our SpringTime Poetry TeaTime with some fun spring poems!
Read-Aloud Poems for Young People
- The Robin by Emily Dickinson, p. 41
- Spring by William Blake, p. 229
- April by Sara Teasdale, p. 230
- April Rain Song by Langston Hughes, p. 231
- May by Sara Teasdale, p. 232
- Blossoms by Frank Dempster Sherman, p. 233
- The Daffodils by William Wordsworth, p. 242
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
- Spring Rain by Marchette Chute, p. 42
- Ode to Spring by Walter R. Brooks, p. 42
- Spring Is by Bobbi Katz, p. 42
- Spring by Karla Kuskin, p. 43
- Good-by My Winter Suit by N.M. Bodecker, p. 43
Poetry Teatime Companion
- The Four Elements by Anne Bradstreet, p. 80
- I Have a Rendezvous with Life by Countee Cullen, p. 82
- Beloved, Let Us One More Praise the Rain by Conrad Potter Aiken, p. 84
- The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Willams, p. 86
- Song on May Morning by John Milton, p. 88
Links to Poems:
- An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Daffodowndilly by A.A. Milne
- Little Seeds by Else Holmelund Minarik
- A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost
- I Have This Way of Being by Jamaal May
- Dear March - Come in by Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886