What is your favourite poem that you remember from childhood?

1. 0

   Lizam1posted 13 years ago

   What is your favourite poem that you remember from childhood?

   replyreport
2. 76

   AEvansposted 13 years ago

   Candy Man by Roald Dahl
   
   Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew. Cover it in chocolate and make a miracle or two. The candy man, the candy man can. The candy man can' cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.
   
   
   I love that poem and it was also a song. Now I have it stuck in my head, lolo!

   replyreport
3. 60

   htoddposted 13 years ago

   Jack and Jill went up the hill. ..That is really a great poem

   replyreport
4. 74

   jirelposted 13 years ago

   I always loved ''twinkle twinkle little star"

   replyreport
5. 60

   artariqposted 13 years ago

   I think the very first poem I read and later understood which then gave me my first appreciation for the power of poetry was Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess".
   
   http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/browni … ion3.rhtml
   
   I implore you to read it and mull over it before looking at the interpretation of it.

   replyreport
6. 63

   cat on a soapboxposted 13 years ago

   I enjoy the collection "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

   replyreport
7. 61

   mindful mamoposted 13 years ago

   Alexander Beetle by AA Milne. Except that isn't the name of it .... I think it's called forgiveness. I still love it!
   I found a lttle beetle, so that beetle was his name,
   And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same
   I put him in a matchbox and i kept him all the day
   And nanny let my beetle out,
   Yes, nanny let my beetle out
   She went and let my beetle out
   And beetle ran away..............

   replyreport
8. 61

   RavenclawKBposted 13 years ago

   I can't recall reading much poetry at a very young age, outside of the fabulous Dr. Seuss, but I became very interested in poetry in high school after reading e.e. cumming's 'i carry your heart with me.'

   replyreport
9. 81

   Say Yes To Lifeposted 11 years ago

   When I was 9 years old, I saw this poem while riding a particular bus.  I was into princesses then, so it fascinated me.
   
   HER VERY FROWNS ARE FAIRER FAR
   "She is not fair to outward view
   As other maidens be.
   Her loveliness I never knew,
   Until she smiled on me,
   Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
   A well of love, a spring of light,
   
   But now her looks are coy and cold,
   To mine they ne'er reply,
   And yet I cease not to behold
   The love-light in her eye.
   Her very frowns are fairer far,
   Than smiles of other maidens are.
   ~ Hartley Coleridge (1746-1849)

   replyreport