Poems for Fathers

Gathered here are just a few of the greatest classic poems written about fathers and fatherhood, to read to or with your dad on Father’s Day:

• Robert Greene,
  “Menaphon: Sephesta’s Song to her Child” (1589)
  
  
• William Blake,
  “The Little Boy Lost” (1791)
  
  
• William Wordsworth,
  “Anecdote for Fathers” (1798)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “High from the earth I heard a bird” (1896)
  
  
• Walt Whitman,
  “On the Beach at Night” (1900)
  
  
• Rudyard Kipling,
  “If” (1910)
  
  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  “The Child Is Father To the Man” (1918)