Top 10 Back to School Poems

Although summer isn’t quite over for most students, I thought I would get a head start on welcoming everyone back to school (or even those who are still going, like those of you in year-round states or the southern hemisphere).

Either way, here is a list of my top 10 back to school poems:

10. Among School Children by William Butler Yeats

9. The Country Schoolmaster by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. Orphan School by Robert William Service

7. The Schoolboy by William Blake

6. An Old Man’s Thought of School by Walt Whitman

5. The Schoolfellow by Sir Henry Newbolt

4. The Old Bark School by Henry Lawson

3. The Latest School by G.K. Chesterton

2. Two Schools by Henry Van Dyke

1. The School In August by Philip Larkin