List_To memorise

July 2009

Mem list

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dover Beach

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Those I know

Auden (1907-1973)
Lay your sleeping head, my love
Law like love

Bishop (1911-1979)
Sonnet (I Am In Need Of Music)
One Art

Coleridge (1772-1834)
Kubla Khan

Wendy Cope
Bloody men are like bloody buses

Dickinson (1830-1886)
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Dear March — Come in –
Hope Is The Thing
Tell All The Truth
I’m nobody! Who are you?
March is the Month of Expectation.
Water, is taught by thirst.

Frost (1874-1963)
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Graves
She Tells Her Love

Housman
Loveliest of Trees

Lear
The Owl And The Pussycat

Ogden Nash
Always Marry An April Girl

Ezra Pound
In a station of the Metro

Christina Rossetti
The Birthday

Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Macbeth: Witches
Macbeth: Tomorrow and tomorrow
Merchant: The man that hath no music
Merchant: The quality of mercy
Romeo & Juliet: My bounty is as boundless
Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee)
Sonnet 130 (My Mistress’ Eyes)

St. Vincent Millay
Night Falls Fast

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
This Is Just To Say/I have eaten/the plums
The Red Wheelbarrow

Yeats (1865-1939)
The Song Of Wandering Aengus
Had I The Heavens

Heaney (b. 1939)
Saint Francis And The Birds