Category Archives: Poems Memorized

A collection of the poems I’ve memorized.

Sonnet 99

Posted on July 30, 2011 by literarylee

William Shakespeare The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love’s breath?  The purple pride which on the soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love’s veins … Continue reading →

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The Parting Kiss

Posted on July 14, 2011 by literarylee

Robert Burns Humid seal of soft affections, Tenderest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love’s first snowdrop, virgin kiss! Speaking silence, dumb confession, Passion’s birth, and infant’s play, Dove-like fondness, chaste concession, Glowing dawn of future day! … Continue reading →

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The New Colossus

Posted on July 4, 2011 by literarylee

Emma Lazarus, 1883 Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and … Continue reading →

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Trees

Posted on June 29, 2011 by literarylee

Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy … Continue reading →

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A Drink With Something In It

Posted on June 22, 2011 by literarylee

Ogden Nash There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini; I wish that I had one at present. There is something about a Martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell … Continue reading →

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Red, Red, Rose

Posted on June 12, 2011 by literarylee

Robert Burns O, My Luve’s Like A Red, Red Rose O my Luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June: O my Luve’s like the melodie, That’s sweetly play’d in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie … Continue reading →

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The Gettysburg Address

Posted on May 30, 2011 by literarylee

Abraham Lincoln Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil … Continue reading →

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Sonnet 116

Posted on May 14, 2011 by literarylee

William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.  Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove; O, no!  It is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on … Continue reading →

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I Have Longed to Move Away

Posted on April 26, 2011 by literarylee

Dylan Thomas I have longed to move away From the hissing of the spent lie And the old terrors’ continual cry Growing more terrible as the day Goes over the hill into the deep sea; I have longed to move … Continue reading →

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A Little Madness

Posted on April 25, 2011 by literarylee

Emily Dickinson A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King, But God be with the Clown — Who ponders this tremendous scene — This whole Experiment of Green — As if it were his own!

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