Poetry Selections for Memory work, Appreciation, Inspiration & Fun

A well-worn list of poems we've enjoyed over many years.

Some have been memorized, some can be recalled with a bit of prompting and some have been the opening of a door for a holy moment. Some of the links are to the the words of the poems others are to versions set to music which we find helpful for memorizing. I've marked these with an *

Mary's Lamb - Sarah Josepha Hale

Time to Rise - Robert Louis Stevenson

Singing Time - Rose Fyleman

Once I Saw a Little Bird

The Little Turtle - Vachel Lindsay

There Once was a Puffin - Florence Page Jaques

Windy Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Land of Counterpane - Robert Louis Stevenson

My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Land of Story-Books - Robert Louis Stevenson

Some One - Walter de La Mare

Furry Bear - A.A. Milne

The Owl and the Pussy-cat - Edward Lear

The Song of Mr. Toad - Kenneth Grahame

Sea Fever - John Masefield

Be Strong! - Maltie Davenport Babcock
The Wooing of Sir Keith -Howard Pyle

Horatius - Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Arrow and the Song - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I Never Saw a Moor - Emily Dickinson

The Day is Done - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

If No One Ever Marries Me - Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll *

Little Things - Julia Fletcher Carney

The Four Friends - A.A. Milne
Forgiven - A.A. Milne*

The Lamb - William Blake

The Tiger  - William Blake

Cock Robin

Five Little Chickens

Tartary -Walter de La Mare

The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes

Lady Clare - Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Inchcape Rock - Robert Southey

If - Rudyard Kipling

No Enemies - Charles Mackay

Waltzing Matilda - A.B. Paterson *

Andy's Gone with Cattle - Henry Lawson *

How McDougal Topped the Score - Thomas E. Spencer

My Country - Dorothea Mackellar *

Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Fool's Prayer - Edward Rowland Sill

Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *

Opportunity - Edward Rowland Sill

The Hound of Heaven - Francis Thompson

The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Father William - Robert Southey

An Old Woman of the Roads - Padraic Colum

Christmas Bells - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *

The Destruction of Sennacherib - George Gordon Byron

My Gift - Christina Rossetti 

Daddy Fell into the Pond - Alfred Noyes

The Cupboard - Walter de La Mare

Mr. Nobody

The Night Wind - Eugene Field

Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore - William Brighty Rands
"One, Two, Three!" Henry Cuyler Bunner

The Wreck of the Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Excelsior - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Clancy of the Overflow - A.B.Paterson *

 Some newer additions:

The Song of Wandering Aengus - W.B. Yeats *