A simple, short poem with a fixed refrain ... Emily Dickinson needs no introduction—she’s one of the most famous poets in the English-speaking world—but perhaps this poem does.

Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids.

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...