Childhood

A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball by Christopher Merrill after practice: right foot

Pledge by Elizabeth Powell Republic, your cool hands / On my schoolgirl shoulders.

Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

A child said, What is the grass? by Walt Whitman A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full

Birches by Robert Frost When I see birches bend to left and right

The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Between the dark and the daylight,

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyreand gimble in the wabe;

The Lamb by William Blake Little lamb, who made thee?

anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs

In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop In Worcester, Massachusetts,

Blur by Andrew Hudgins Storms of perfume lift from honeysuckle,

"Out, Out—" by Robert Frost The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard

The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson

Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson What are you able to build with your blocks?

Babylon by Robert Graves The child alone a poet is

Going Down Hill on a Bicycle by Henry Charles Beeching With lifted feet, hands still

Playgrounds by Laurence Alma-Tadema In summer I am very glad

The Retreat by Henry Vaughan Happy those early days, when I

Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay We were very tired, we were very merry

Untitled [You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old] by Rudyard Kipling You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old