Ecosophians' Memorized Poems

[Oct. 28 - ok, I've added them all though I've not got links inserted for all of them yet. Oh, and I forgot to write down the ones I included in the comment thread, so I'll come back and add (some approximation of) them later.]


This list is what I gleaned from the comment section on the Ecosophia blog during the April 2020 Open Post where I asked people to tell us what some of their favorite poems to learn by heart were. I think I scooped 'em all up from the long comment thread but if not... well, this'll at least get a body started in the search for poetry. Links provided when found (along with the username of the person who submitted the poem).

• "High Flight," John Magee; "Song for Autumn," Mary Oliver (Squirrelly Jen)

• "American Names," Steven Vincent Benet (Will Oberton)
  

• "I Remember, I Remember," Philip Larkin (Mark)
  

• "The Jabberwock," Lews Carroll; "The Riddle of the Dinosaur," Bert Leston Taylor; "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats; selections from "Under Milk Wood," Dylan Thomas (Andy Dwelly)

• "The Heaven of Animals," James Dickey (Rita R)

• "Paul Revere's Ride," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; prologue to "Canterbury Tales" (Ip)
  

• "The Cat by the Fire,"  (title unverified, author unknown) (Lathechuck)

• "Twa Corbies," anonymous; "The Battle of Otterburn," anonymous; "Duello," Robert Service (DJSpo)

• "The Windhover," Gerard Manley Hopkins; "The Author to Her Book," Anne Bradstreet (Troy Jones III)

• "The Red Wheelbarrow," William Carlos Williams; "The Silken Tent," Robert Frost; "pity this busy monster" and "not and Four," (title unverified, I couldn't find it online) e. e. cummings; "In Distrust of Merits," Marianne Moore; "Raggedy Man" and "When Frost Is on the Punkin," James Whitcomb Riley; "Nothing Gold Can Stay," Robert Frost; "True Night," Gary Snyder (Mark Grable)

• "Sweeney Among the Nightengales," T. S. Eliot; "Song of the Master and Boatswain," W. H. Auden; untitled, but with the phrase "by rivers and lakes," Tu Fu (Kevin L. Cook)

• "I Eat My Peas with Honey," anonymous; "Gashleycrumb Tinies," Edward Gorey (Miz Bean)

• "Against Entropy," John Ford; "Sons of Martha" and "The Supports," Rudyard Kipling (Sam Chevre)

• several poems in Spanish, no titles given (CK Patiño)

• "The Golden Journey to Samarkand," James Elroy Flecker (Martin Back)

• "Lady of Shalott," Alfred Lord Tennyson; "The Bonny Swans" and "Wild Geese," Mary Oliver; "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," William Butler Yeats; "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "To Make a Prairie," Emily Dickinson; "The Raven," "Alone," and "Annabelle Lee," Edgar Allen Poe; "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," Adrienne Rich; "Cassilda's Song," Robert W. Chambers (Sister Crow)

• "Shall I Compare Thee" (Sonnet  ) and Puck's lines "If we shadows..." Shakespeare; "The Tyger," William Blake; "El Dorado," Edgar Allen Poe (methylethyl)

• "The Duino Elegies," Rainer Maria Rilke (Isaac Salamander Hill)

• "Fire and Ice," Robert Frost; excerpt from Canto XIII in "City of Dreadful Night," James B.V. Thomson (Phutatorius)

• "Since there's No Help," Michael Dreyton; "They Flee from Me," Thomas Wyatt;  "The Indifferent," John Donne (Deborah Bender)

• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray; "[anyone loved in a pretty how town]," e. e. cummings (Walt F.)

• "To Autumn," John Keats; "Ulysses," Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Steve T)

• "In Blackwater Woods," Mary Oliver (Peter VanErp)

• "The Cremation of Sam McGee," Robert Service (Patricia Mathews)

• portions of "Bors to Elayne," Charles Williams (Mathias Gralle)

• excerpts of Chaucer's works, and "The Aeneid by Virgil (Michelle)

• works by Edward Lear (Emmanuel Goldstein)

• "Fire and Ice," Robert Frost; "Jabberwocky," Lewis Carroll; "The Twa Corbies," anonymous - see also this site for folks singing the ballad (Rita)

• "Sonnet 18," Shakespeare; works by Pablo Neruda (Violet)

• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T. S. Eliot; "Miniver Cheevy," E. A. Robinson (David by the Lake)

• "Ulysses," Alfred, Lord Tennyson; (portions of?) "Ballad of the White Horse," G. K. Chesterton (link is to audio version); "For the Fallen," Laurence Binyon (Isabel Cooper)

• "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," Wallace Stevens (Dina)

• "Ozymandius," Percy Bysshe Shelley (actually, did you know there are two linked sonnets that originally had this title? The other is by Shelley's friend Horace Smith); "The Master," E. A. Robinson; Bilbo's poem "The Song of Earendil" J. R. R. Tolkein (JMG)