several poems i enjoy

November 14, 2011

 

 

 

 

Just about everybody is required to memorize a poem or two somewhere along the way. Following are a few of the poems that I have studied, enjoyed, and/or committed to memory over the years so far.

Opportunity
Edward Rowland Sill

The House by the Side of the Road
Sam Walter Foss

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell
John Keats

The Day is Done
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sonnet xxix
Shakespeare

Question [1]
Langston Hughes

Aftermath
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trees
Joyce Kilmer

To one who has been long in city pent
John Keats

Daffodils
William Wordsworth

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth

The Spider and the Fly
Mary Howitt

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One Response to “several poems i enjoy”

  1. Bang Says:

    You forgot the Jabberwockey.


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