Just as all children's books shouldn't be read by children (nor by anyone else), neither should children read only children's book...s. Every young child should be exposed to poetry--good adult poetry--not only to learn to appreciate the rhythm of its sophisticated beat (as opposed to the amusing, political doggerel of Mother Goose) but because poetry has the scope and precision to conjure pictures that prose can seldom paint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A frog he would a-wooing go, Heigh ho! says Rowley,... Whether his mother would let him or no. With a rowley, powley, gammon and spinach, Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true, And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;... But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two, Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle,... The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In marble halls as white as milk, Lined with a skin as soft as silk,... Within a fountain crystal-clear, A golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jack and Jill Went up the hill,... To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down, And broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »