Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization

Poems

• 1 Ooey Gooey [Author Unknown]
• 2 Celery by Ogden Nash
• 3 The Little Man Who Wasn’t There by Hughes Mearns
• 4 The Vulture by Hilaire Belloc
• 5 After the Party by William Wise
• 6 Singing Time by Rose Fyleman
• 7 The Yak by Hilaire Belloc
• 8 The Ingenious Little Old Man by John Bennett
• 9 My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 10 There Was an Old Person Whose Habits by Edward Lear
• 11 Jonathan Bing by Beatrice Curtis Brown
• 12 Whole Duty of Children by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 13 Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore by William Brighty Rands
• 14 My Gift by Christina Rossetti
• 15 The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 16 Persevere [Author Unknown]
• 17 Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti
• 18 The Eagle by Alfred Tennyson
• 19 The Swan and the Goose by William Ellery Leonard
• 20 Personal Selection (8 lines or shorter)
• 21 How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
• 22 At the Seaside by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 23 Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably by Hilaire Belloc
• 24 Fog by Carl Sandburg
• 25 Some One by Walter de la Mare
• 26 The Duke of Plaza-Toro by W.S. Gilbert
• 27 God and the Soldier [Author Unknown]
• 28 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
• 29 The Height of the Ridiculous by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 30 The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
• 31 Trees by Joyce Kilmer
• 32 The Captain’s Daughter by James T. Fields
• 33 The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
• 34 Sea Fever by John Masefield
• 35 Shoes by Louis Untermeyer
• 36 The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt
• 37 Conscience & Remorse by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• 38 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
• 39 Project by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
• 40 Personal Selection (12 lines or shorter)
• 41 A Young Lady Named Bright by Edward Lear
• 42 A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 43 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
• 44 O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
• 45 Matilda: Who Told Lies, and Was Burned to Death by Hilaire Belloc
• 46 Scintillate, Scintillate, Globule Vivific by Dave Arns
• 47 What I Live For [Author Unknown]
• 48 Courage by Sister M. Eulalia, RSM
• 49 Grandfather’s Clock by Henry Clay Work
• 50 The Touch of the Master’s Hand by Myra Brooks Welch
• 51 The Unknown Soldier by Billy Rose
• 52 The Pessimist by Ben King & The Optimist [Author Unknown]
• 53 The Fool’s Prayer by Edward Roland Sill
• 54 Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• 55 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats
• 56 The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron
• 57 The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 58 When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman
• 59 Casey’s Revenge by Grantland Rice
• 60 Personal Selection (any length)
• 61 The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet by Guy Wetmore Carryl
• 62 The Tiger by William Blake
• 63 Metaphysics by Oliver Herford
• 64 Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
• 65 The Choir Invisible by George Eliot
• 66 The Hand That Rocks The Cradle . . . by W.R. Wallace
• 67 The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
• 68 The Quality of Mercy from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• 69 In Flanders Fields by Dr. John McCrae
• 70 Epigram by Samuel Coleridge
• 71 God Save the Flag by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 72 The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven by Guy Wetmore Carryl
• 73 A Song from the Suds by Louisa May Alcott
• 74 The Hen by Oliver Herford
• 75 Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
• 76 Woodman, Spare that Tree George Perkins Morris
• 77 Grand Chorus by John Dryden
• 78 An Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Wells
• 79 The Hunting of the Dragon by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• 80 Personal Selection (any length)