As the summer months come to an end, the bittersweet transition to autumn begins. There’s a lot to love about this season, which is why these fall poems are perfect for sharing with students. Embrace the change of season in your classroom with some heartwarming poetry.
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Best Fall Poems for Elementary School Students
1. Autumn by Alexander Posey
“And the air is filled with
Scarlet leaves, that, dropping,
Rise again, as ever …”
2. Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino
“The First one said, ‘Oh my it’s getting late!’”
3. Fall by The Classroom Creative
“Leaves are falling
to the ground
without a sound.”
4. Autumn Means Harvest by Lenore Hetrick
“Autumn means harvest,
And grain in the bin.”
5. Five Little Acorns by Mrs. A
“The first one said, ‘I’m as happy as can be!’”
6. A Fall of Colors by Little Miss Hood
“I like sunshine.
I like trees.
I like dancing in the breeze.”
7. Taking a Walk by Mary Jackson Ellis
“We look for all the falling leaves.”
8. A Sad, Glad Time by Lenore Hetrick
“Autumn is a fruitful season,
And yet a little sad.”
9. Fall Leaves by Sue, The Very Busy First Grade Classroom Blog
“Red, yellow, orange, brown …”
Best Fall Poems for Middle and High School Students
10. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
“Nature’s first green is gold.”
11. Fall by Didi Jackson
“… the flash of gold
against the mica sky …”
12. Dark Eye in September by Paul Celan
“A second time the chestnut blooms.”
13. Kid, these are train tracks, by Jeffrey Bean
“The train never comes.
You smell it anyway. …”
14. Gone Is Gone by Mark Wunderlich
“I was there at the edge of Never, of Once Been, bearing the night’s hide …”
15. Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar
“It’s all a farce,—these tales they tell.”
16. Autumn Leaves by Marilyn Chin
“The dead piled up, thick, fragrant, on the fire escape.”
17. Of Things and Home by b: william bearhart
“… a body is wrapped up in quilts because October is a cold house …”
18. October Evening by Robinson Jeffers
“Wet with the young season’s first rain.”
19. In Envy of Cows by Joseph Auslander
“With beauty of motion slow and succinct like some grave privilege …”
20. Thinking of Frost by Major Jackson
“I thought by now my reverence would have waned …”
21. Autumn by Alice Cary
“She lies on pillows of the yellow leaves.”
22. Kid, this is the first rain, by Jeffrey Bean
“It strips off the rest of the leaves, reminds trees how to shiver.”
23. Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today by Emily Jungmin Yoon
“Today you wear the cold. Your chilled skin.”
24. November by Edward Thomas
“Those thirty days, from first to last …”
25. Autumn by Siegfried Sassoon
“October’s bellowing anger breaks and cleaves.”
26. Fall, Leaves, Fall by Emily Brontë
“Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away.”
27. The Letters Learn To Breathe Twice by Brenda Hillman
“When the danger of fire has passed …”
28. Kid, this is October, by Jeffrey Bean
“you can make the maples blaze
just by stopping to look …”
29. The Seasons Moralized by Philip Freneau
“And Nature triumphs in her prime.
Then Autumn crowns the beauteous year …”
30. Nature Aria by Yi Lei
“Autumn wind chases in.”
31. Autumn by Christina Rossetti
“Fair fall the freighted boats which gold and stone
And spices bear to sea …”
32. My November Guest by Robert Frost
“My sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain …”
33. The Blower of Leaves by January Gill O’Neil
“Always there is sky after sky waiting to fall.”
