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Best Poems about childhood (309)

Discover the top poems about childhood on The Poet's Place.

Architecture 101 by Arilume · 24 ♥

The One Who Got the Other Half by Ruben B. · 11 ♥

Le Jardin des Tuileries by Oscar Wilde · 9 ♥

The Snake by Emily Dickinson · 9 ♥

To William Shelley (1) by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 8 ♥

A Day by Emily Dickinson · 8 ♥

Mother, my cheeks are wet. by Fernando Pessoa · 6 ♥

The Smooth Spot by Brkwin · 5 ♥

As children bid the guest good-night by Emily Dickinson · 5 ♥

They won't frown always,—some sweet day by Emily Dickinson · 5 ♥

FLASHES OF MADNESS — V by Alexander Search · 5 ♥

Who were "the Father and the Son" by Emily Dickinson · 4 ♥

Going by Emily Dickinson · 4 ♥

How They Practice by Maai · 3 ♥

Now I lay me down to sleep by Emily Dickinson · 3 ♥

The Lost Bower by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 3 ♥

Poem of The Child That Went Forth, and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever by Walt Whitman · 3 ♥

The House We Made by greylark · 2 ♥

New feet within my garden go by Emily Dickinson · 2 ♥

A Snake by Emily Dickinson · 2 ♥

I noticed people disappeared by Emily Dickinson · 2 ♥

Distant Thump by Nilosor · 1 ♥

Permanent Record by Cass · 1 ♥

Static by Mae Grey · 1 ♥

We spy the Forests and the Hills by Emily Dickinson · 1 ♥

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