Hurt No Living Thing
Poems for Young Children

Hurt No Living Thing is a short, but good moral poem for children. It's a lovely way to teach your kids to do no harm to living creatures, no matter how small they may be.

Hurt No Living Thing
by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Hurt no living thing;
Ladybug, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.

~Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

Christina Rossetti was an English poet who came by her writing ability quite naturally. Her brothers were: Dante Gabriel Rossetti--an English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator; and William Michael Rossetti--a poet and a critic.

Her sister, Maria Francesca Rossetti, was an English author, while her father, Gabriele Rossetti, was an Italian poet and scholar.

Christina Rossetti began writing at the tender age of 7, but she was 31 before her first work--Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)--was published.

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