Agriculture in Poetry
How to Read a Poem (includes poetry terms and definitions)
FARM ANIMALS
- April (Yvor Winter)
- The Cow (Robert Louis Stevension)
- The Cow in Apple Time (Robert Frost)
- The Cow is of the Bovine Ilk (Ogden Nash)
- Goat (Meish Goldish)
- The Hay Rake (Kate Barnes)
- Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens (Jack Prelutsky)
- The New Cow (August Derleth)
- Ode to the Pig: His Tail (Walter R. Brooks)
- Pied Beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
- Pigs (Charles Guigna)
- Rodeo (Edward Lueder)
- Sow Got the Measles
- Three Little Piggies
FOOD
- After Apple-Picking (Robert Frost)
- Ants on the Melon (Virginia Hamilton Adair)
- Apple Season (Joyce Sutphen)
- Blackberry Picking (Seamus Heaney)
- Fiesta Melons (Sylvia Plath)
- Mother's Biscuits (Freda Quenneville)
- My Strawberry (Helen Hunt Jackson)
- Ode to Tomatoes (Pablo Neruda)
- The Pancake Collector (Jack Prelutsky)
- Pancake Poem (Shel Silverstein)
- Pancake Song (Christina Rosetti)
- Peach Trees (Peggy Pond Church)
- Perhaps the World Ends Here (Joy Harjo)
- A Pizza the Size of the Sun (Jack Prelutsky)
- Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received From a Friend Called Felicity (John Tobias)
- Sand Plum Jelly (Del Cain)
- Thanksgiving Magic (Rowena Bastin Bennett)
- This is Just to Say (William Carlos Williams)
- Watermelons (Charles Simic)
PLANTS AND CROPS
- Ain't It Beautiful (Monty Harper)
- Fueled (Marcie Hans)
- How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual (Pamela Spiro Wagoner)
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (William Wordsworth)
- Mushrooms (Sylvia Plath)
- My Strawberry (Helen Hunt Jackson)
- November Cotton Flower (Jean Toomer)
- Ode to Tomatoes (Pablo Neruda)
- October (Robert Frost)
- Plowing Through Ashes (Walter McDonald)
- Prairie Spring (Willa Cather)
- Soundings (Joyce Sutphen)
- Preparation (Robert Francis)
- Theme in Yellow (Carl Sandburg)
- This Compost (Walt Whitman)
- To Autumn (John Keats)
- When the Frost is on the Punkin (James Whitcomb Riley)
- Winter Trees (William Carlos Williams)
MISCELLANEOUS
Songs about Farmers, Ranchers and Cowboys
- The Agriculture Song
- Don't Fence Me In
- The Farmer and the Cowman
- The Farmer in the Dell
- Five Friendly Farmers
- The Lincolnshire Farmer
Songs about Farm Animals
BARNYARD ANIMALS
CHICKENS, DUCKS & TURKEYS
- The Chickens
- I Had a Little Chickie
- Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens (Jack Prelutsky)
- The Little White Duck
- My Black Hen
- The Rooster
- Six Little Ducks
- The Turkey
- Turkey in the Straw
COWS
- Betsy, the Heifer
- The Cow
- The Cow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- The Cow is of the Bovine Ilk
- Dairy Cow Song
- The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends
- Farmer Brown's Cow
- Git Along, Little Dogies
- Pied Beauty
GOATS & SHEEP
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- Bill Grogan's Goat
- The Darby Ram
- Goat (Meish Goldish)
- Little Bo-Peep
- Little Boy Blue
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Mary Had a William Goat
- Old MacDonald Had a Goat
- Sheep Shearing
HORSES & MULES
PIGS
Songs about Food
- Aiken Drum
- Betty Botter
- Bread and Cereals
- Dairy Products
- Hinky Dinky Double D Farm
- I Eat My Peas With Honey
- Little Miss Muffet
- Market Day
- Ode to Tomatoes (Pablo Neruda)
- Picking Apples
- Pizza Songs
- Pumpkins
- Sand Plum Jelly (Del Cain)
- Tomato Ketchup
- Watermelons (Charles Simic)
- We're Out of Paint, So... (Shel Silverstein)
PEANUTS & PEANUT BUTTER
Songs about Growing Things and the Environment
- The Big Sunflower
- The Boll Weevil Song
- Did You Ever See an Earthworm?
- An English Country Garden
- The Green Grass Grew All Around
- I Love Dirt
- I'm a Little Scarecrow
- The Lincolnshire Shepherd
- The Littlest Worm
- Over in the Garden
- Plants in the Garden
- Pumpkins!
- The Soil Order Song
- Sow, Hoe, Grow
- Squirming Worms
- Water Cycle Song