# Ideas for poems to memorize **URL:** \ **Category:** Memorizing Poetry, Speeches, Books\ **Tags:** poems\ **Created:** [November 22, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/ideas-for-poems-to-memorize/34175 "2018-11-22T09:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Josh](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/josh/32/21_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Josh)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/ideas-for-poems-to-memorize/34175/1 "2018-11-22T09:46:45Z")
Are there any poetry memorizers here? I thought we could compile a list of #poems that people could use to for memorization ideas. Add your favorites in the comments. The book, [_101 Poems to Remember_, edited by Ted Hughes](https://web.archive.org/web/20190322194552/https://www.ted-hughes.info/bibliographies/full-bibliography/bibliography-details/by-heart-101-poems-to-remember-read-and-introduced-by-ted-hughes-audio.html), has a list that might make a good starting point: - **A. E. Housman:** ‘On Wenlock Edge’ - **Alexander Pope:** From An Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot - **Alfred, Lord Tennyson:** The Eagle - **Andrew Young:** Field Glasses - **Anonymous:** Donal Og - **Anonymous:** Mad Tom’s Song - **D. H. Lawrence:** Piano - **Dylan Thomas:** A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London - **Dylan Thomas:** Poem In October - **Edward Thomas:** The Combe - **Elizabeth Barrett Browning:** A Musical Instrument - **Emily Dickinson:** ‘A Wind That Rose’ - **Emily Dickinson:** ‘Like Rain It Sounded’ - **Emily Dickinson:** ‘There Came A Wind’ - **Emily Dickinson:** ‘There’s A Certain Slant Of Light’ - **Emily Dickinson:** ‘This World Is Not Conclusion’ - **Ezra Pound:** The Return - **F. R. Higgins:** Song For The Clatter-Bones - **Gerard Manley Hopkins:** Binsey Poplars - **Gerard Manley Hopkins:** Inversnaid - **Gerard Manley Hopkins:** Spring And Fall - **Gerard Manley Hopkins:** The Windhover - **John Betjeman:** A Subaltern’s Love-Song - **John Betjeman:** Meditation On The A30 - **John Crowe Ransom:** Bells For John Whiteside’s Daughter - **John Crowe Ransom:** Blue Girls - **John Crowe Ransom:** Winter Remembered - **John Donne:** Song - **John Donne:** The Relique - **John Keats:** La Belle Dame Sans Merci - **John Keats:** On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - **John Keats:** [To Autumn](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/memorize-the-poem-to-autumn-by-john-keats/26665) - **John Milton:** On The Late Massacre In Piedmont - **Keith Douglas:** How To Kill - **Lewis Carroll:** Jabberwocky - **Percy Bysshe Shelley:** [Ozymandias](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/memorize-the-poem-ozymandias-by-percy-bysshe-shelley/26662) - **Philip Larkin:** Livings (Part 2) - **Robert Frost:** Neither Out Far Nor In Deep - **Robert Frost:** Provide, Provide - **Robert Frost:** Spring Pools - **Robert Frost:** [Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/memorize-stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-by-robert-frost/26664) - **Robert Frost:** The Road Not Taken - **Robert Frost:** The Runaway - **R. S. Thomas:** Here - **Rudyard Kipling:** James I - **Rudyard Kipling:** The Way Through The Woods - **Samuel Taylor Coleridge:** Kubla Khan - **Seamus Heaney:** The Skunk - **Stevie Smith:** Not Waving But Drowning - **Sylvia Plath:** Crossing The Water - **Thomas Hardy:** Beeny Cliff - **Thomas Hardy:** The Darkling Thrush - **Thomas Wyatt:** ‘They Flee From Me’ - **T. S. Eliot:** Death By Water - **T. S. Eliot:** La Figla Che Piange - **T. S. Eliot:** Lines For An Old Man - **T. S. Eliot:** Marina - **T. S. Eliot:** Mr Apollinax - **T. S. Eliot:** The Journey Of The Magi - **Walter De La Mare:** An Epitaph - **W. B. Yeats:** ‘A Woman’s Beauty’ - **W. B. Yeats:** ‘Come Let Us Mock At The Great’ - **W. B. Yeats:** Death - **W. B. Yeats:** Easter 1916 - **W. B. Yeats:** He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge - **W. B. Yeats:** Leda And The Swan - **W. B. Yeats:** Roger Casement - **W. B. Yeats:** The Second Coming - **W. E. Henley:** Invictus - **W. H. Auden:** ‘Carry Her Over The Water’ - **W H. Auden:** Musee Des Beaux Arts - **W. H. Auden:** ‘Stop All The Clocks’ - **W. H. Auden:** The Fall Of Rome - **W. H. Auden:** This Lunar Beauty - **Wilfred Owen:** Anthem For Doomed Youth - **Wilfred Owen:** Dulce Et Decorum Est - **Wilfred Owen:** Strange Meeting - **William Blake:** Auguries Of Innocence - **William Blake:** Long John Brown And Little Mary Bell - **William Blake:** The Sick Rose - **William Blake:** The Smile - **William Blake:** The Tyger - **William Empson:** The Small Bird To The Big - **William Shakespeare:** ‘Fear No More The Heat O’ The Sun’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘My Love Is As A Fever’ - **William Shakespeare:** My Mistress’ Eyes - **William Shakespeare:** ‘Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘Other Slow Arts’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘Our Revels Now Are Ended’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘The Heavens Themselves, The Planets’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘The Witches’ Song’ from Macbeth - **William Shakespeare:** ‘Tir’d With All These, For Restful Death I Cry’ - **William Shakespeare:** ‘To Be, Or Not To Be’ from Hamlet - **William Shakespeare:** ‘To-Morrow, And To-Morrow, And To-Morrow’ - **William Wordsworth:** ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’ - **William Wordsworth:** The Simplon Pass - **William Wordsworth:** The Solitary Reaper - **William Wordsworth:** Tintern Abbey - **William Wordsworth:** Upon Westminster Bridge A few more that might be interesting: - **T. S. Eliot:** [The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/seeking-adivces-on-memorising-prufrock-by-t-s-eliot/27689) - **William Shakespeare:** The Phoenix and the Turtle - **Edmund Spenser:** Sonnets - **Alfred, Lord Tennyson:** The Lady of Shallot - **John Keats:** Ode to a Nightingale There is also a blog post with additional ideas: > **[Lists of Poems to Memorize](https://artofmemory.com/blog/lists-of-poems-to-memorize/)** > > 👉 For anyone practicing poetry memorization, here is a list of some ideas of poems to memorize. Add your ideas in the comments below. ---
**Author:** ![selmoicusenintadni](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/selmoicusenintadni/32/5681_2.png) [@selmoicusenintadni](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/selmoicusenintadni)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/ideas-for-poems-to-memorize/34175/2 "2018-11-22T11:50:32Z")
The two which I’ve been meaning to memorize to start are - “Make Way For Liberty” by James Montgomery - “Revolting Rhymes” by Roald Dahl I’ve mostly memorized the first one just by reading it so much. It’s a really great legend about the Battle of Sempach Field when Switzerland won her independence from Austria. The second is just enjoyable to read.