Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids.

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and ... poke fun at nonsense and others are poems for kids that will make you think as much as they’ll ...

We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts ... but you may prefer cheerier children’s Christmas books as an alternative. Love for plea and gift and sign. So much more than ...