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Easier Poem Units

Louisa May Alcott		To The First Born (grades 1-3)
Maya Angelou		Life Doesn't Frighten Me (grades 3-4)
Anonymous		The Cats of Kilkenny (grades 1-3)
Lewis Carroll		You Are Old, Father William (grades 5-6)
Charles Causley		Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-Toast (grades 5-6)
Lydia Maria Child		The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day (grades 2-4)
Elizabeth T. Corbett		A Misspelled Tail (grades 3-5)
Emily Dickinson		Bee! I'm Expecting You! (grades 2-4)
		Hope is the Thing with Feathers (grades 2-4)
		The Grass so Little Has to Do (grades 2-4)
		Summer Shower (grades 3-5)
T. S. Eliot		Gus: The Theatre Cat (grades 5-6)
Eugene Field		The Duel (grades 5-6)
Edgar Guest		Raisin Pie (grades 4-8)
Thomas Hood		No! (grades 3-5)
Rudyard Kipling		The Camel's Hump (grades 3-5)
Edward Lear		The Quangle Wangle's Hat (grades 5-6)
James Russell Lowell		The Fountain (grades 2-4)
Clement Clarke Moore		The Night before Christmas (grades 6-12)
Ogden Nash		The Dog (grades 1-3)
		Adventures of Isabel (grades 5-6)
Alfred Noyes		Daddy Fell into the Pond (grades 3-4)
Jack Prelutsky		Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face (grades 3-4)
Thomas Buchanan Read		The Angler (grades 6-8)
Laura Richards		Eletelephony (grades 3-4)
Theodore Roethke		The Bat (grades 5-6)
Christina Rossetti		Clouds (grades 1-3)
John G. Saxe		The Blind Men and the Elephant (grades 5-6)
Shel Silverstein		Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (grades 5-6)
Robert Louis Stevenson		My Shadow (grades 3-4)
Ann Taylor		The Field Daisy (grades 2-4)
		The Spider (grades 2-4)
Alfred Lord Tennyson		Minnie and Winnie (grades 2-4)
		The Eagle (grades 2-4)
Unknown		My Books (grades 3-5)
Judith Viorst		Mother Doesn't Want a Dog (grades 3-4)

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High School Level Poem Units

Matthew Arnold		Dover Beach
W. H. Auden		The Unknown Citizen
William Blake		A Poison Tree
Elizabeth Barrett Browning		Sonnet 14, If Thou Must Love Me
Robert Browning		My Last Duchess
		The Laboratory
George Gordon Byron		The Destruction of Sennacherib
Lewis Carroll		Jabberwocky
Samuel Taylor Coleridge		The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Emily Dickinson		Because I Could Not Stop for Death
		‘Twas just this time last year I died
John Donne		A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
T. S. Eliot		The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Thomas Dunn English		Ben Bolt
Robert Frost		Mending Wall
William Lloyd Garrison		Freedom for the Mind
Thomas Hardy		Neutral Tones
Oliver Wendell Holmes		Old Ironsides
A. E. Housman		To an Athlete Dying Young
Langston Hughes		Mother to Son
John Keats		Ode on a Grecian Urn
Rudyard Kipling		The Ballad of East and West
Charles and Mary Lamb		Anger
D. H. Lawrence		Snake
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		Paul Revere's Ride
Amy Lowell		Patterns
Walter Malone		Opportunity
Andrew Marvell		To His Coy Mistress
John Masefield		Sea-Fever
Navarre Scott Momaday		The Earth
Pablo Neruda		"Tonight I Can Write" or "Poem 20"
Alfred Noyes		The Highwayman
Maurice Ogden		The Hangman
Wilfred Owen		Dulce Et Decorum Est
Edgar Allan Poe		The Raven
Edwin Arlington Robinson		Richard Cory
Carl Sandburg		Chicago
Sir Walter Scott		Lochinvar
Robert W. Service		The Cremation of Sam McGee
Anne Sexton		Cinderella
Percy Bysshe Shelley		Ozymandias
Edward Rowland Sill		The Fool's Prayer
Gary Soto		Oranges
Alfred, Lord Tennyson		The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ernest Lawrence Thayer		Casey at the Bat
Dylan Thomas		Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Rose Hartwick Thorpe		Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
unknown		Two Pictures
John Updike		Ex-Basketball Player
John Greenleaf Whittier		Maud Muller
Oscar Wilde		The Ballad of Reading Gaol
William Wordsworth		The World Is Too Much With Us
Richard Wright		Between the World and Me
William Butler Yeats		The Second Coming

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