18 of the Best Easter Poems to Help You Celebrate
Easter Sunday is marked by so many beautiful things: family, warm weather and reflection. Some people will spend their morning at church, remembering the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, while others will be with the kids, hunting for eggs all around the backyard.
Regardless of how you'll spend the day, take a minute to celebrate all the things the season has to offer by reading one of these beautiful Easter poems. With short rhymes you can easily write to a friend in an Easter card, as well as bunny-inspired poems for kids and church-friendly verses, these Easter poems are bound to inspire you throughout the day.
If you're looking for more ways to mark Easter, you can also look at our Easter quotes and Instagram captions. We also have some sweet ideas for Easter wishes you can send your friends, family and neighbors.
Short Easter poems to share with friends
"Go through this two lined Easter themed poem and start hiding your own Easter eggs." —Kyle Mitchell.
"Go through this beautiful poem and awaken yourself with a new hope and belief that you can yourself heal the ways of the world with your own individualized will." — Del "Abe" Jones
"The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies." —Katie McGahan
"The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky. And sings." — Joyce Kilmer
Religious Easter poems
"Celebrate Our Savior
On Easter morn, we celebrate our Savior;
Whatever people seek in Him, they find.
In history, there has never been another
So holy, sacrificial, good and kind.
His resurrection makes us all immortal;
In heaven, we’ll be together with our King.
Eternally we’ll share in all His blessings;
Happy Easter! Jesus Christ is everything!" — Joanna Fuchs
"If in that Syrian garden, ages slain,
You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain,
Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright
Ascends in smoke and fire by day and night
The hate you died to quench and could but fan,
Sleep well and see no morning, son of man.
But if, the grave rent and the stone rolled by,
At the right hand of majesty on high
You sit, and sitting so remember yet
Your tears, your agony and bloody sweat,
Your cross and passion and the life you gave,
Bow hither out of heaven and see and save." — A. E. Housman
"A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Or I guess if is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we
may see and remark, and say Whose?" — Walt Whitman
"Jesus rose on Easter day,
The stone by his tomb was rolled away.
He conquered death upon that day,
And He lives again to show us the way. " — Kelly Roper
"The silver trumpets rang across the Dome:
The people knelt upon the ground with awe:
And borne upon the necks of men I saw,
Like some great God, the Holy Lord of Rome.
Priest-like, he wore a robe more white than foam,
And, king-like, swathed himself in royal red,
Three crowns of gold rose high upon his head:
In splendor and in light the Pope passed home." — Oscar Wilde
"Am I a stone, and not a sheep,
That I can stand, O Christ, beneath thy cross,
To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,
And yet not weep?
Not so those women loved
Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;
Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;
Not so the thief was moved;
Not so the Sun and Moon
Which hid their faces in a starless sky,
A horror of great darkness at broad noon--
I, only I.
Yet give not o'er,
But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;
Greater than Moses, turn and look once more
And smite a rock." — Christina Rossetti
"Easter is a time of love,
A time of death and pain undone,
So we may know the power of The love that lives in each one.
Each love we feel, unstained and free,
Redeems us — as with you and me." — Nicholas Gordon
Easter poems for children
"You may think that this sounds funny,
But why do we get eggs from the Easter bunny?
Shouldn't there be an Easter Chicken
With her scrawny legs a-kickin'
As she rushes around in a whirl
Leaving eggs for each boy and girl?" — Kelly Roper
"The grass is green
and you are blue,
so why oh why
can't I find you?
One plastic egg
left to find.
I must keep looking,
no candy gets left behind!" — Michele Meleen
"The first little rabbit went hop, hop, hop.
I said to the first rabbit, “Stop, stop, stop!”
The second little rabbit went run, run, run.
I said to the second rabbit, “Fun, fun, fun!”
The third little rabbit went thump, thump, thump.
I said to the third rabbit, “Jump, jump, jump!”
The fourth little rabbit went sniff, sniff, snuff.
I said to the fourth rabbit, “That is enough!”
The fifth little rabbit went creep, creep, creep.
I said to the fifth rabbit, “It’s time to sleep!” — Anonymous
"With a hip and a hop—
Easter bunny won’t you stop,
At my house to hide some yummy little eggs.
Then you’ll jump out and run –
Down the street for some fun,
Zippity quick on your fuzzy, furry legs.
To hide treats for the others –
Boys and girls –even mothers,
Treats galore packed in baskets and bright bags!" — Leanne Guenther
"She walked among the daffodils,
Eyes piercing.
Somewhere there was a treasure
Hidden within the yellow sea;
And there it was,
A silvery slip of oval goodness
Encasing a sweet wonder
Her fingertips could barely free
From its grasp.
Treasure found, she added it to
The basket filled with other such wonders,
A secret smile spreading across her face." —Julie Craig
“I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!” —Edna Dean Proctor
"What Easter Is
Sweet chocolate rabbits
Pretty spring flowers
Baskets full of candy.
A promise of the future
A gift to receive
A beautiful, perfect plan.
Winter now is over
Easter at last is here
Life has been renewed." —Sharon Hendricks
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