Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization

Works

• 1 Ooey Gooey p.7
• 2 Celery p.8
• 3 The Little Man Who Wasn't There p.9
• 4 The Vulture p.10
• 5 After the Party p.11
• 6 Singing Time p.12
• 7 The Yak p.13
• 8 The Ingenious Little Old Man p.14
• 9 My Shadow p.15
• 10 There Was an Old Person Whose Habits p.16
• 11 Jonathan Bing p.17
• 12 Whole Duty of Children p.18
• 13 Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore p.19
• 14 My Gift p.20
• 15 The Swing p.21
• 16 Persevere p.22
• 17 Who Has Seen the Wind? p.23
• 18 The Eagle p.24
• 19 The Swan and the Goose p.25
• 20 Personal Selection p.26
• 21 How Doth the Little Crocodile p.33
• 22 At the Seaside p.34
• 23 Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably p.35
• 24 Fog p.36
• 25 Some One p.37
• 26 The Duke of Plaza-Toro p.38
• 27 God and the Soldier p.39
• 28 Jabberwocky p.40
• 29 The Height of the Ridiculous p.41
• 30 The Spider and the Fly p.42
• 31 Trees p.44
• 32 Ballad of the Tempest p.45
• 33 The Charge of the Light Brigade p.46
• 34 Sea Fever p.47
• 35 Shoes p.48
• 36 The Glove and the Lions p.49
• 37 Conscience and Remorse p.50
• 38 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening p.51
• 39 Project p.52
• 40 Personal Selection p.53
• 41 A Young Lady Named Bright p.63
• 42 A Psalm of Life p.64
• 43 The Road Not Taken p.65
• 44 O Captain! My Captain! p.66
• 45 Matilda, Who Told Lies, and Was Burned to Death p.67
• 46 Scintillate, Scintillate, Globule Vivific p.68
• 47 What I Live For p.69
• 48 Courage p.70
• 49 Grandfather's Clock p.71
• 50 The Touch of the Master's Hand p.72
• 51 The Unknown Soldier p.73
• 52 The Pessimist and The Optimist p.74
• 53 The Fool's Prayer p.75
• 54 Casey at the Bat p.76
• 55 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven p.78
• 56 The Destruction of Sennacherib p.79
• 57 The Village Blacksmith p.80
• 58 When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer p.81
• 59 Casey's Revenge p.82
• 60 Personal Selection p.84
• 61 The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet p.93
• 62 The Tiger p.94
• 63 Metaphysics p.95
• 64 Lochinvar p.96
• 65 The Choir Invisible p.98
• 66 The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is the Hand That Rules the World p.99
• 67 The Maldive Shark p.100
• 68 The Quality of Mercy p.101
• 69 In Flander's Fields p.102
• 70 Epigram p.103
• 71 God Save the Flag p.104
• 72 The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven p.105
• 73 A Song from the Suds p.106
• 74 The Hen p.107
• 75 Desiderata p.108
• 76 Woodman, Spare that Tree! p.109
• 77 Grand Chorus p.110
• 78 An Overworked Elocutionist p.111
• 79 The Hunting of the Dragon p.112
• 80 Personal Selection p.113
• 81 Socrates' Apology p.121
• 82 First Oration Against Catiline p.123
• 83 On the Eve of the Battle with the Spanish Armada p.125
• 84 St. Crispin's Day Speech p.127
• 85 Friends, Romans, Countrymen p.128
• 86 Give Me Liberty p.129
• 87 Declaration of Independence p.130
• 88 Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America p.131
• 89 1789 Abolition Speech p.132
• 90 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? p.134
• 91 Opening Lines of A Tale of Two Cities p.136
• 92 The Gettysburg Address p.137
• 93 Address at a Gathering of Americans in London, July 4, 1872 p.138
• 94 Excerpts from "The Strenuous Life" p.140
• 95 The King's Speech p.142
• 96 We Shall Fight on the Beaches p.144
• 97 For We Let Our Young Men and Women Go Out Unarmed p.145
• 98 Anyway p.146
• 99 Brandenburg Gate Speech p.147
• 100 Freedom From Fear Speech p.149