The poem Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is one that most children learn at an early age. It is one that many children look to the sky and recite.
It was originally written in the early 1800s and has truly stood the test of time. Enjoy sharing this poem with your children. Children delight in this poem and many times sing it.
Oh! look at the moon,
She is shining up there;
Oh! mother, she looks
Like a lamp in the air.
Last week she was smaller.
And shaped like a bow;
But now she ’s grown bigger.
And round as an O.
Pretty moon, pretty moon.
How you shine on the door,
And make it all bright
On my nursery floor!
You shine on my playthings.
And show me their place.
And I love to look up
At your bright pretty face.
And there is a star
Close by you, and maybe
That small, twinkling star
Is your baby.
Starlight
Poet: Lucy Larcom
Mother, see! the stars are out,
Twinkling all the sky about;
Faster, faster, one by one,
From behind the clouds they run.
Are they hurrying forth to see
Children watching them like me?
"Oft I wonder, mother dear,
Why so many stars appear
Through the darkness every night,
With their little speck of light:
Hardly can a ray so small
Brighten up the world at all."
"Ah, you know not, little one,
Every dim star is a sun
To some planet-circle fair,
In its far-off home of air.
Rays that here so faint you call,
There in radiant sunshine fall.
"I have sometimes wondered, too,
(Scarcely wiser, dear, than you,)
Why unnumbered souls had birth
On this wide expanse of earth;
Wondered where the need was shown
For so many lives unknown.
"He who calls the stars by name,
At his mighty word they came
Out of heaven's deep light, to bless
Life's remotest wilderness.
Every soul may be a sun, —
You and I, too, little one!"
