Comments on: Poetry stuck in my head

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:26:07 +0000

Oh, I remember memorizing Trees too. Thanks!

By: Delisha Webb

Delisha Webb — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:29:39 +0000

God love that High School English Teacher! I remember some of those…although I don’t think I would have remembered as many as you and Jamie! Has anyone heard if she is still teaching? or has she retired? Did you guys have to write your own poem or ode? I remember mine…it was called “Ode to a long lost friend” Funny thing that ode…I found several copies of it after my mom passed away!

By: roseykrh

roseykrh — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:05:20 +0000

I was also gonna say “The Raven”. And I remember learning “Birches” by Robert Frost. But my favorite poem that I memorized for school was “Trees” by Alfred Joyce Kilmer

Trees
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 arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

By: Jami Leigh

Jami Leigh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:00:37 +0000

Perhaps we only memorized the first verse of the Raven

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:34:06 +0000

Ah yes, I often quote Not Waving But Drowning.

I looked at the Raven last night when I first wrote this post. Couldn’t remember if we memorized part of just studied it.

By: Jami Leigh

Jami Leigh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:20:03 +0000

Or the “Raven” by Edgar Alan Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”

By: Jami Leigh

Jami Leigh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:11:47 +0000

How bout “Not waving but Drowning“

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:45:27 +0000

Thanks Patti! You’re so kind.

Ahh The Rime of the Ancient Mariner… that’s the one I was trying to think of last night!

“Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.”

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:27:31 +0000

Here´s one we learned in middle school, actually. We were studying meter.

“This is the forest primeval.
The murmuring pines & the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, & in garments green,
indistinct in the twilight.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)
There is more to the poem, but this is the part I remember memorizing (if that makes any sense!)

By: Patricia Nichols

Patricia Nichols — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:24:24 +0000

Oh, and you pray for your friends! That’s a big one!

By: Patricia Nichols

Patricia Nichols — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:20:13 +0000

see, that’s why I love you (well, one of the many reasons)!

you fix stuff, you’re a coffee expert, and you are interested in time travel and rocket launches. . .and the list goes on!

Oh, and one of my favorite memorization passages was from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner–Coleridge.