This time look in the index under an author's name. Read all of his or her poems you can put your index finger on in one week. Poetry is strewn with ideas-saturate yourself in these words that can have an intoxicating effect on the intellect. Ideas to the mind are what nutritious food is to the stomach. Remember, Charlotte Mason encourages us to give children contact with the minds of thinkers.
Education is mind to mind, thought to thought, person to person.
Notes, commentaries, lectures, long lists of questions, and other middlemen are not needed. Let the poets speak and the children do the thinking. Biographical backgrounds on the poets serve to widen a child's curriculum and add to his cultural heritage. For a lighter dose, or to tempt a child who doesn't think he will like poetry, try the nonsense poetry of Lewis G. Carroll or Edward Lear. Slightly older children won't be able to resist the humor of Ogden Nash.