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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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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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Memorizing Poems

Posted on May 9, 2011 by literarylee

How it all Started In August 2008, my wife watched Out of Africa one weekend I was out of town.  Near the end of the movie, Karen walks into the men’s club bar and offers the toast: “Rose lipt maidens, … 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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Loveliest of Trees: Posted too Soon!

Posted on April 8, 2011 by literarylee

Eager beaver blogger that I was, I posted, long before I should have way back in cold January, a poem about cherry blossoms.  One of the first I memorized, “Loveliest of Trees the Cherry, Now” by A.E. Housman, perfectly captures … Continue reading →

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Poem Memorization Tip Number Nine Revisited (put the children to bed before reading this)

Posted on March 17, 2011 by literarylee

Still working on the poem, To A Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing by William Butler Yeats.  Here’s what I’ve memorized so far: Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For … Continue reading →

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To A Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing

Posted on March 17, 2011 by literarylee

William Butler Yeats Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own … Continue reading →

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Out of the rolling ocean the crowd

Posted on March 13, 2011 by literarylee

Walt Whitman Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me, whispering, I love you, before long I die, I have travell’d a long way merely to look on you to touch you, For I could … Continue reading →

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Dream Deferred

Posted on March 9, 2011 by literarylee

Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy … Continue reading →

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