Academy of American Poets,
Committed to memory : 100 best poems to memorize
Sonnets: Sonnet / At the round Earths imagin'd corners / On first looking into Chapman's Homer / New colossus / Lucifer in starlight / On his blindness / Sonnet #18 / Sonnet #55 / Ozymandias / Compose upon Westminster bridge / Tears, idle tears / Song of myself, #11 / Widow's lament on springtime / Slumber did my spirit seal / They flee from me / Cat and the moon / Song of wandering Aengus / Braham / From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / World / To the virgins, to make much of time / To an athlete dying young / If / Up-hill / Do not go gentle into that good night / Go, lovely rose! / Eagle and the mole / Second coming
Tales: Lord Randall / My last duchess / Jabberwocky / Kubla Khan / anyone live in a pretty how town / Road not taken / Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Oxen / Le belle dame sans merci / Owl and the pussy-cat / Richard Cory / Apple gathering / Woodspurge / All the world's a stage / Casey at the bat / Adlestrop / From Snow-bound / Meditations: Dover beach / Stanzas / To a waterfowl / From Childe Harold's pilgrimage / Narrow fellow in the grass / Because I could not stop for death / Mending wall / Hyla brook / Darkling thrush / Chambered nautilus / Spring and fall / To autumn / On his seventy-fifth birthday / Snow-flakes / Tide rises, the tide falls / Shiloh / Animals / House on the hill / From Adonais / Not waving but drowning / Mnemosyne / Ulysses / From In memoriam / Kraken / Noiseless patient spider
Hollander, John.
Elizabeth Bishop -- John Donne -- John Keats -- Emma Lazarus -- George Meredith -- John Milton / Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom -- William Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- William Wordsworth -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Walt Whitman -- William Carlos Williams -- WIlliam Wordsworth -- Thomas Wyatt -- William Butler Yeats -- William Butler Yeats --Counsels: April mortality / Leonie Adams -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 / Anonymous -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Edward Fitzgerald -- George Herbert -- Robert Herrick -- A.E. Housman -- Rudyard Kipling -- Christina Rossetti -- Dylan Thomas -- Edmund Waller -- Elinor Wylie -- William Butler Yeats.
Anonymous -- Robert Browning -- Lewis Carroll -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- E.E. Cummings -- Robert Frost -- Thomas Gray -- Thomas Hardy -- John Keats -- Edward Lear -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Christina Rossetti -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- William Shakespeare -- Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Edward Thomas -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Matthew Arnold -- Emily Bronte -- William Cullen Bryant -- George G.N., Lord Byron -- Emily Dickinson -- Emily Dickinson -- Robert Frost -- Robert Frost -- Spring pools / Robert Frost -- Thomas Hardy -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- John Keats -- Walter Savage Landor -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Herman Melville -- Edwin Muir -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Stevie Smith -- Trumbull Stickney -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Walt Whitman.
edited, with an introduction, by John Hollander.
Committed to memory : 100 best poems to memorize
