A Charlotte Mason education wouldn’t be complete without poetry. So, I’ve compiled a list of free poetry books for all grades starting from the Early Years to High School.
I hope this list will be very useful to your family!

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Free Poetry Resources for Charlotte Mason Homeschoolers
I’ve done my best to arrange the resources by grade level. You can scroll down to whichever heading you fall under, and choose a resource.
Early Years to Lower Elementary
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing
Upper Elementary
The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Complete Prose Works – Walt Whitman
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys [1850]
Middle School to High School
Poems by Anne Brontë and Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë
Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Aristotle on the Art of Poetry
Free Poetry on Kindle
A great way to get more poetry books via Kindle is to have an Amazon Prime account, Audible, or Kindle Unlimited.
There’s a wide variety of books on both, and it pretty much pays for itself if you are a big reader.
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