White sheep, white sheep, On a blue hill, When the wind stops, You all stand still. When the wind blows, You walk away slow. White sheep, white sheep, Where do you go?

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Poems by This Author

Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake] by Christina Rossetti I dream of you, to wake: would that I might Monna Innominata [I loved you first] by Christina Rossetti I loved you first: but afterwards your love Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember] by Christina Rossetti I wish I could remember that first day A Birthday by Christina Rossetti My heart is like a singing bird A Christmas Carol by Christina Rossetti In The bleak mid-winter An Apple Gathering by Christina Rossetti I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Morning and evening Holy Innocents by Christina Rossetti Sleep, little Baby, sleep Remember by Christina Rossetti Remember me when I am gone away, Song ["When I am dead, my dearest"] by Christina Rossetti When I am dead, my dearest, The Thread of Life by Christina Rossetti The irresponsive silence of the land To My Mother by Christina Rossetti To-day's your natal day Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti Who has seen the wind? Winter: My Secret. by Christina Rossetti I tell my secret? No indeed, not I [Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome

Further Reading

Poems for Kids Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there] by Hughes Mearns At the Zoo by William Makepeace Thackeray Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky Bleezer's Ice Cream by Jack Prelutsky Dream Variations by Langston Hughes Eletelephony by Laura Elizabeth Richards Fishmonger by Marsden Hartley I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280) by Emily Dickinson Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll maggie and milly and molly and may by E. E. Cummings Mary's Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale Mother Doesn't Want a Dog by Judith Viorst Mr. Grumpledump's Song by Shel Silverstein My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson Nonsense Alphabet by Edward Lear Sick by Shel Silverstein Since Hannah Moved Away by Judith Viorst The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll The Duel by Eugene Field The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] by Eliza Lee Follen The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe The Tyger by William Blake We never know how high we are (1176) by Emily Dickinson Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field