We have been memorizing poetry for quite a while now, and as I said elsewhere, we focus on one poet at a time while memorizing his or her poem. I will read a poem each day by the particular poet we are studying. We keep the memorized poems, along with the pages I make for the bulletin board (with the poet's picture, country, and birth and death dates) in a notebook. The girls review the old poems by each of them reciting one each day. We do those the same way we do our current memory work: Big Girl will recite the poem while Little Girl looks at it and corrects any mistakes, then they switch. I started doing this when I realized that I was memorizing the poems myself just by looking at them and correcting the girls when they would recite them. So it serves double duty.
Here is a list of the poems we have memorized so far with their authors. At first, we did simpler ones, that were mostly by poets who wrote specifically for children. I tried to choose the most "important" and well known poems and poets. Here is the main site I use as our source.
Ooey Gooey - Anonymous
The Germ - Ogden Nash
The Vulture - Hilaire Belloc
It's Dark in Here - Shel Silverstein
The Land of Counterpane - Robert Lewis Stevenson
How Doth the Little Crocodile - Lewis Carroll
Some One - Walter de la Mare
Silver - Walter de la Mare
Hurt No Living Thing - Christina Rossetti
The Duel - Eugene Field
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carol
I Chased a Dragon Through the Woods - Jack Prelutsky
The Tyger - William Blake
Trees - Alfred Joyce Kilmer
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (only did part of this one)
O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman
Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson (half of this one)
Daffodils - William Wordsworth
Eldorado - Edgar Allan Poe
Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Emily Dickinson
Old Ironsides - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost (my favorite poem and poet!)
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Daddy Fell Into the Pond - Alfred Noyes
The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear
The Spider and the Fly - Mary Botham Howitt
The Arrow and the Song - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And if anyone is wondering "Why memorize poetry?" Here are some good articles. I don't agree with everything in them, being a Christian, but there is some good stuff to be pulled from them. The "disagreeable" parts will be obvious to other Christians. (Just philosophy type stuff.)
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