Poetry I want to memorize

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  • John Donne--The Flea
  • John Donne--Valediction Forbidding Mourning
  • Lewis Carroll--Jabberwocky
  • William Blake--The Clod and the Pebble
  • Traditional--Oranges and Lemons
  • Samuel Coleridge--Kubla Khan
  • Edgar Allen Poe--The Raven
  • Shakespeare--To Be or Not to Be
  • Clement Clarke Moore--A Visit From St. Nicholas
  • T.S. Eliot--The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • Chaucer--"Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales
  • Francois Villon--Ballad of Ladies of the Past
  • Ben Jonson--Song to Celia II
  • John Donne--Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star
  • John Donne--Triple Fool
  • John Milton--When I Consider How my Light is Spent
  • Gray--Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  • Dorothy Wordsworth--Floating Island
  • William Blake--Tyger! Tyger!
  • John Keats--Ode on a Grecian Urn
  • Edward Lear--The Owl and the Pussycat
  • William Carlos Williams--The Red Wheel Barrow
  • William Carlos Williams--Apology
  • e.e. cummings--Buffalo Bill's
  • Langston Hughes--Harlem (Dream Deferred)
  • Sylvia Plath--Daddy
  • Shakespeare--The Queen, My Lord, Is Dead speech
  • Lord Byron--Sailing to Byzantium
  • Shakespeare--Poet, Lover and Madman speech from Midsummer Night's Dream
Author Comments: 

Thus far I've done Jabberwocky, Kubla Khan, A Visit from St. Nicholas, Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, Triple Fool, The Red Wheel Barrow, The Queen, My Lord, Is Dead, Large chunks of The Raven and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock