Poetry I want to memorize
Submitted by Smithfield on Sun, 01/30/2005 - 12:33
Tags:
- 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








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