April Showers, bring May Flowers! It's April and Spring has Sprung. Let's get started on our SpringTime Poetry TeaTime with some fun spring poems!

Read-Aloud Poems for Young People

• The Robin by Emily Dickinson, p. 41
• Spring by William Blake, p. 229
• April by Sara Teasdale, p. 230
• April Rain Song by Langston Hughes, p. 231
• May by Sara Teasdale, p. 232
• Blossoms by Frank Dempster Sherman, p. 233
• The Daffodils by William Wordsworth, p. 242

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children

• Spring Rain by Marchette Chute, p. 42
• Ode to Spring by Walter R. Brooks, p. 42
• Spring Is by Bobbi Katz, p. 42
• Spring by Karla Kuskin, p. 43
• Good-by My Winter Suit by N.M. Bodecker, p. 43

Poetry Teatime Companion

• The Four Elements by Anne Bradstreet, p. 80
• I Have a Rendezvous with Life by Countee Cullen, p. 82
• Beloved, Let Us One More Praise the Rain by Conrad Potter Aiken, p. 84
• The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Willams, p. 86
• Song on May Morning by John Milton, p. 88

Links to Poems:

• An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
• Daffodowndilly by A.A. Milne
• Little Seeds by Else Holmelund Minarik
• A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost
• I Have This Way of Being by Jamaal May
• Dear March - Come in by Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886