Poetry Recitation Suggestions

YP - Preschool - Mother Goose, Childhoo

*Time to Rise by Robert Louis Stevenso

*Hey Diddle Diddle by Mother Goos
**I’m Glad by Anonymou
**Butter y by Benjamin Frankli
***Little Miss Muffet by Mother Goos
***Rain by Robert Louis Stevenso
Humpty Dumpty by Mother Goos
Bird Talk by Aileen Fishe

Y0 - Kindergarten - Childhood, Trave

*Near and Far by Kate Cox Goddar

*Mix a Pancake by Christina Rossett
**Singing Time by Rose Fylema
**The Purple Cow by Gelett Burges
***Monday’s Child by Anonymou
***Whole Duty of Children by Robert Louis Stevenso
Trains by James S. Tippet
Little Boy Blue by Mother Goos

Y1 - First Grade - Robert Louis Stevenson, A.A. Miln

*Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenso

*The Caterpillar by Christina Rossett
**The Tortoise and the Hedgehog by Rudyard Kiplin
**Wind On a Hill by A. A. Miln
***Swing by Robert Louis Stevenso
***Where Go the Boats by Robert Louis Stevenso
Singing by Robert Louis Stevenso
Now We Are Six by A. A. Miln
The Months by Sara Coleridg
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 Y2 - Second Grade - Walter de la Mare, Eugene Field, James Whitcomb Riley, Christina
Rossett

*Someone by Walter de la Mar

*The Ingenious Little Old Man by John Bennet
**When the Frost is on the Punkin’ by James Whitcomb Rile
**The Song of Mr. Toad by Kenneth Graham
***The Duel by Eugene Fiel
***Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossett
Mr. Nobody by Walter de la Mare
The Goops by Gelett Burges
All things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Alexande

Y3 - Third Grade - William Blake, Sara Teasdale, Hilda Conkling, Helen Hunt Jackso

*Tyger by William Blak

*How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carro
**Barter by Sara Teasdal
**Snow ake Song by Hilda Conkling
***Morning Glory by Helen Hunt Jackso
***The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howit
Little Lamb by William Blak
Paul Bunyan by Shel Silverstein
September by Helen Hunt Jackso

Y4 - Fourth Grade - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, William Wordswort

*The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyso

*The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeat
**I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinso
**The Bells by Edgar Allan Po
***I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
***The Height of the Ridiculous by Oliver Wendell Holme
Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyso
All That is Gold Does Not Glitter by J R R Tolkie
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holme
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Y5 - Fifth Grade - Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier,
Paul Laurence Dunba

*If by Rudyard Kiplin

*Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol
**The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfello
**Learning to Read by Francis Watkins Harpe
***In School-Days by John Greenleaf Whittier
***Conscience and Remorse by Paul Laurence Dunba
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfello
Dilettante by Paul Laurence Dunba
A Ballad of John Silver by John Mase el

Y6 - Sixth Grade - Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughe

*The Road Not Taken by Robert Fros

*Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Fros
**Chicago by Carl Sandbur
**O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitma
***Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thaye
***Rivers by Langston Hughe
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Fros
Prairie Waters by Night by Carl Sandbur
Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilco

Y7 - Seventh Grade - Oxford Book of English Verse, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Keat

*Ozymandias by Percy Blithe Shelle

*Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scot
**The True Knight by Stephen Hawe
**The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyso
***Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Heman
***La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keat
To Autumn by John Keat
The Fool’s Prayer by Edward Rowland Sil
Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyso
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 Y8 - Eighth Grade - 12 Shakespeare Sonnets and Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, by Roy
Maynard about Spencer's Fairie Queene, John Donne, George Herbert, John Milto

*Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

*Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thoma
**Sonnet 73 by William Shakespear
**Death Be Not Proud by John Donn
***Love (III) by George Herber
***On His Blindness by John Milto
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespear
The Pulley by George Herber
Lycidas by John Milto

Y9 - Ninth Grade - Alexander Pope, William Cowper, Phillis Wheatley, George Gordon Lord
Byro

*Ode On Solitude by Alexander Pop

*Epitaph on a Hare by William Cowpe
**Hymn to the Morning by Phillis Wheatle
**The Soul by Richard Henry Dan
***She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Lord Byro
***The Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon Lord Byro
The Raven by Edgar Allan Po
Matilda by Hilaire Bello
The Owl Critic by James Thomas Field

Y10 - Tenth Grade - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitma

*Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridg

*The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (last six stanzas
**Sonnets from the Portuguese, #43 (How Do I Love Thee) by Elizabeth Browning

**My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

***The Rodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson

***When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitma
Epigram by Samuel Taylor Coleridg
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad by Robert Brownin
The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerso
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 Y11 - Eleventh Grade - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Czeslaw Milosz, Norton's Anthology of Modern
Poetr

*Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Milla

*The Hunting of the Dragon by G.K. Chesterto
**On Pilgrimage by Czeslaw Milos
**Prayer of a Soldier in France by Joyce Kilme
***The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeat
***The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet by Guy Wetmore Carry
Travel by Edna St. Vincent Milla
Dedication by Czeslaw Milos
The Thought Fox by Ted Hughe

Y12 - Twelfth Grade - Luci Shaw, Wendell Berry, Wislawa Szymborsk

*Robin the the Late Afternoon by Luci Sha

*The New Colossus by Emma Lazaru
**Sabbaths – 1979, IV by Wendell Berr
**An Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Well
***Utopia by Wislawa Szymborsk
***Desiderata by Max Ehrman
The Maldive Shark by Herman Melvill
The Tables Turned by William Wordswort
The Highwayman by Alfred Noye

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