Montessori List for Poems 

For Early Poets…

by Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition : Poems and Drawings
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
A Light in the Attic
Falling Up
A Giraffe and a Half

For Advanced Poets…

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
“This slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age…”

Favorite Poems, Old And New selected by Helen Ferris
collection of about 1000 peoms by authors like A.A.Milne, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, John Drinkwater, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browing,

The Bible, Edgar