Favorite poetry collections?

[momto2Cs]

What are your favorite poetry collections? My children enjoy poetry and have been memorizing simpler poems, so I am looking for a good book (or several) to use for the poetry/memory work part of homeschooling.

[Rebecca in TN]

My dd and I love poetry. When she was younger she especially enjoyed these books: Poem Stew by Cole and Weinhaus, The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks by Ciardi and Meddaugh and Favorite Poems Old and New edited by Ferris. I guarantee that your children will find many poems in these books that they enjoy reading and memorizing.

[kortney in AL]

My dd and I love poetry. When she was younger she especially enjoyed these books: Poem Stew by Cole and Weinhaus, The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks by Ciardi and Meddaugh and Favorite Poems Old and New edited by Ferris. I guarantee that your children will find many poems in these books that they enjoy reading and memorizing.

We loved these books also. Two more of our favorites are A Zooful of Animals and An Arkful of Animals, both by William Cole. I don't know how old your children are, but my 16 year old daughter still loves The Random House Book of Poetry for Children. We also have A Treasury of Poetry for Young People which is a nice selection of American poets like Frost and Sandburg. You'll find more serious poems in this book.

[nmoira]

Moon Have You Met My Mother, a collection of Karla Kuskin's children' s poetry.

[Jean in Newcastle]

"A child's Garden of Verses" - poems by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Childcraft poetry volume

Poems by A.A. Milne

The Book of Virtues has some nice poems in it.