My mother is 93 and her favorite was from a teacher she had while living in Eastern Washington as a young women is “Somebody’s Mother” by Mary Dow Brine (1816-1913)
The White Mule by Ciaran O Driscoll has a great play of words and used skillfully so that the words copy the action of the sea “sea swill over the rocks” , and also a word play of sounds ,at the end , which is good for beginers .For more advanced Seamus Heaney and “Storm on the Island ” is short and precise , as well as his other famous poems. .
And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.
Auguries of Innocence by William Blake.
The Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti.
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth
This is my all time favorite poem. I adore William Wordsworth.
The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll
“Oh Captain , My Captain”
Pablo Neruda – I love you
Adore Pablo Neruda I have a quote from sonnet 17 on my arm.
Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night
The Road Not Taken
My mother is 93 and her favorite was from a teacher she had while living in Eastern Washington as a young women is “Somebody’s Mother” by Mary Dow Brine (1816-1913)
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening by Robert Frost
Very nice
Very nice
@Evans Ita a magical poem
Yes. Coded as well
@Evans yes it’s full of mystery
Yes.
“Should you go First” Albert Roswell
One bright day in the middle of the night…Palmer Proffitt, Preston Proffitt, dec., Junior Norris, dec.
A Irish airman foresees his death WB Yeats
The White Mule by Ciaran O Driscoll has a great play of words and used skillfully so that the words copy the action of the sea “sea swill over the rocks” , and also a word play of sounds ,at the end , which is good for beginers .For more advanced Seamus Heaney and “Storm on the Island ” is short and precise , as well as his other famous poems. .
Annabel Lee-Poe
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
“Hyacinth” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Growing up, my dad read us The Raven regularly. We also loved The Calico Dog and the Gingham Cat, If, and The Wonderful One Hoss Shay.
“Daffodils” by Wordsworth; “Once by the Pacific” by Robert Frost; and anything in Stephen Dobyns’ “Cemetery Nights” collection
Ooooohhh… i ❤ Daffodils.
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
I memorized Edgar Allen Poe’s Eldorado when I was 18. I still recite it to myself whenever I need to hear it.
Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Anything by Billy Collins!
Invictus by William Henley
“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams.