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Committed to Memory : 100 Best Poems to Memorize
Committed to Memory 100 Best Poems to Memorize Author:John Hollander Poet John Hollander has divided the poems into tales, sonnets, songs, meditations and counsels. Published in partnership with The Academy of American Poets. — Contents: — Sonnets: Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop — At the round Earths imagin'd corners / John Donne — On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats — New colossus / Emma Lazarus — Lucifer in... more » starlight / George Meredith
On his blindness / John Milton
Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom
Sonnet #18 / William Shakespeare
Sonnet #55 / William Shakespeare
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Compose upon Westminster bridge / William Wordsworth
Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Song of myself, #11 / Walt Whitman
Widow's lament on springtime / William Carlos Williams
Slumber did my spirit seal / WIlliam Wordsworth
They flee from me / Thomas Wyatt
Cat and the moon / William Butler Yeats
Song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats
Counsels: April mortality / Leonie Adams
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 / Anonymous
Braham / Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald
World / George Herbert
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman
If / Rudyard Kipling
Up-hill / Christina Rossetti
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Go, lovely rose! / Edmund Waller
Eagle and the mole / Elinor Wylie
Second coming / William Butler Yeats
Tales: Lord Randall / Anonymous
My last duchess / Robert Browning
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
anyone live in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings
Road not taken / Robert Frost
Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray
Oxen / Thomas Hardy
Le belle dame sans merci / John Keats
Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Apple gathering / Christina Rossetti
Woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
All the world's a stage / William Shakespeare
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Adlestrop / Edward Thomas
From Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier
Meditations: Dover beach / Matthew Arnold
Stanzas / Emily Bronte
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant
From Childe Harold's pilgrimage / George G.N., Lord Byron
Narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson
Mending wall / Robert Frost
Hyla brook / Robert Frost
Spring pools / Robert Frost
Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy
Chambered nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins
To autumn / John Keats
On his seventy-fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor
Snow-flakes / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tide rises, the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Shiloh / Herman Melville
From Leonie Adams to William Butler Yeats - 100 of the best poems to commit to memory in the language. Great to keep the "leeetle gray cells" fresh and bubbling.