Famous First Grade Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous First Grade poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous first grade poems. These examples illustrate what a famous first grade poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Kunitz, Stanley
...Miss Murphy in first grade
wrote its name in chalk
across the board and told us
it was roaring down the stormtracks
of the Milky Way at frightful speed
and if it wandered off its course
and smashed into the earth
there'd be no school tomorrow.
A red-bearded preacher from the hills
with a wild look in his eyes
stood in the public square
at the playground's edge
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by
Brautigan, Richard
...g in America
disappeared altogether as it was destined to from its very
beginning, and a kind of autumn fell over the first grade.
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA
WITH THE FBI
Dear Trout Fishing in America,
last week walking along lower market on the way to work
saw the pictures of the FBI's TEN MOST WANTED MEN in
the window of a store. the dodger under one of the pictures
was folded under at both sides and you couldn't read all of it.
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by
Nemerov, Howard
...I
My child and I hold hands on the way to school,
And when I leave him at the first-grade door
He cries a little but is brave; he does
Let go. My selfish tears remind me how
I cried before that door a life ago.
I may have had a hard time letting go.
Each fall the children must endure together
What every child also endures alone:
Learning the ...Read more of this...
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