Lower Group (~K-3rd)

• Oxford Book of Children's Verse, Medieval (Opie)

• St. Ephrem the Syrian (306-373)*

• St. Romanos the Melodist (480-550)

*Fall slightly before this time period

Middle Group (~4-12th)

• St. Gregory the Theologian (329-390)*

• St. Joseph the Hymnographer (816-886)

• St. Cassiani (Kassia the nun) (810-865)

• Jacopo da Lentini (~1200-1260)

• Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)

• Julian of Norwich (1342-1420)

Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):

• St. Gregory of Narek (~950-1003)

• St. Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022)

• Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

Lower Group (~K-3rd)

• Oxford Book of Children's Verse, Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century (Opie)

• Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596)

• William Blake (1757-1827) [Recitation Page] Songs of Innocence

Middle Group (~4-12th)

• George Herbert (1593-1633)

• Anne Bradstreet (1619-1672)

• Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

• Robert Burns (1759-1796)

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850) [Recitation Page] (C2/3)

Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):

• John Donne (1572-1631)

• John Milton (1608-1674) [Recitation Page]

• Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)

Lower Group (~K-3rd)

• Christina Rossetti (1830-1894): Sing-Song 

• Eugene Field (1850-1895): Lullaby-Land: Songs from Childhood

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894): A Child's Garden of Verses 

Middle Group (~4-12th)

• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) [Recitation Page]

• John Keats (1795-1821)

• Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

• Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [Recitation Page]

• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) [Recitation Page]

Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

• Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

Lower Group (~K-3rd)

• Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

•  A.A. Milne (1882-1956): Now We Are Six  [Readings; Recitation Page]

• A.A. Milne (1882-1956): When We Were Young *PDF

• Walter de LaMare (1873-1956): Songs from Childhood & Selections from Peacock Pie

Middle Group (~4-12th)

• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

• G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

• William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) [Readings; Recitation Page]

• St. Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956)

• Robert Frost (1874-1963) [Readings; Recitation Page]

• Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

• Scott Cairns (1954-Present)

Upper Group or Independent (~9-12th):

• T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) [Readings; Recitation Page]

• W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

• Giorgos Themelis (1900-1976)