Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize

Sonnets: Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop

At the round Earths imagin'd corners / John Donne

On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats

New colossus / Emma Lazarus

Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith

On his blindness / John Milton / Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom

Sonnet #18 / William Shakespeare

Sonnet #55 / William Shakespeare

Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Compose upon Westminster bridge / William Wordsworth

Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Song of myself, #11 / Walt Whitman

Widow's lament on springtime / William Carlos Williams

Slumber did my spirit seal / WIlliam Wordsworth

They flee from me / Thomas Wyatt

Cat and the moon / William Butler Yeats

Song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats

Counsels: April mortality /

Leonie Adams - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 / Anonymous

Braham / Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward Fitzgerald

World / George Herbert

To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick

To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman

If / Rudyard Kipling

Up-hill / Christina Rossetti

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

Go, lovely rose! / Edmund Waller

Eagle and the mole / Elinor Wylie

Second coming / William Butler Yeats.

Tales: Lord Randall / Anonymous

My last duchess / Robert Browning

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll

Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

anyone live in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings

Road not taken / Robert Frost

Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray

Oxen / Thomas Hardy

Le belle dame sans merci / John Keats

Owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear

Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Apple gathering / Christina Rossetti

Woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti

All the world's a stage / William Shakespeare

Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Adlestrop / Edward Thomas

From Snow-bound / John Greenleaf Whittier

Meditations: Dover beach / Matthew Arnold

Stanzas / Emily Bronte

To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant

From Childe Harold's pilgrimage / George G.N., Lord Byron

Narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson

Mending wall / Robert Frost

Hyla brook / Robert Frost - Spring pools / Robert Frost

Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy

Chambered nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins

To autumn / John Keats

On his seventy-fifth birthday / Walter Savage Landor

Snow-flakes / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tide rises, the tide falls / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Shiloh / Herman Melville

Animals / Edwin Muir

House on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson

From Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith

Mnemosyne / Trumbull Stickney

Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Kraken / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman.