100 best poems to memorize Hollander, John 1929-2013 editor Boland, Eavan 1944-2020 text nyu New York Riverhead Books 1997 1st Riverhead trade pbk. edition monographic eng 196 pages ; 21 cm. One hundred poems chosen specifically for memorization, a vanishing art. For the most part they are classics in rhyming accentual-syllabic verse. Among them: Kipling's If, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus, immortalized on the Statue of Liberty. Introduction Written by John Hollander, framing the art and value of memorizing poetry. SONNETS Elizabeth Bishop — Sonnet John Donne — At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners John Keats — On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Emma Lazarus — The New Colossus George Meredith — Lucifer in Starlight John Milton — On His Blindness John Crowe Ransom — Piazza Piece William Shakespeare — Sonnet 18, Sonnet 55 Percy Bysshe Shelley — Ozymandias William Wordsworth — Composed upon Westminster Bridge powells.com SONGS This section includes well-known lyrical poems such as: William Blake — The Tyger Robert Burns — A Red, Red Rose Emily Dickinson — Dear March—Come in— Langston Hughes — The Negro Speaks of Rivers Lewis Carroll — Jabberwocky Rudyard Kipling — If Robert Frost — The Road Not Taken And many others by poets like Auden, Whitman, and Tennyson powells.com COUNSELS Featuring reflective and philosophical pieces, such as: Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 (Anonymous, Old Testament) Ralph Waldo Emerson — Brahma Edward Fitzgerald — Excerpt from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam A. E. Housman — To an Athlete Dying Young Dylan Thomas — Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Christina Rossetti — Up‑Hill powells.com TALES Narrative-driven poems including: Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Kubla Khan Ernest Lawrence Thayer — Casey at the Bat Thomas Gray — Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Christina Rossetti — An Apple Gathering Lewis Carroll — Jabberwocky (might also appear here depending on layout) MEDITATIONS Contemplative and evocative poetry: Matthew Arnold — Dover Beach Emily Dickinson — Because I Could Not Stop for Death Robert Frost — Mending Wall John Keats — To Autumn Walt Whitman — A Noiseless Patient Spider Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Ulysses, The Kraken Gerard Manley Hopkins — Spring and Fall powells.com Acknowledgments Acknowledgement section by the editor John Hollander edited, with an introduction, by John Hollander ; advisory committee, Eavan Boland ... [et al.]. English poetry American poetry Poesía estadounidense Poesía Inglesa PR 1175 C734 1997 821.008 1573226467 9781573226462 97010450 DLC 970317 20260518121719.0 4015303 eng