What is your most favourite piece of poetry you remember learning when you were a youngster.?

Mine was the obvious - Daffodils. The next was 'The Sage's Pigtail' and 'Old Father William'.

What is your most favourite piece of poetry you remember learning when you were a youngster.?
Hiawatha .....I think it was Longfellow. I loved it though it was so long. also.



Many Mothers to many daughters........Kate Kate....you will be late

Where is your satchel......and so on. Its so true to life.



As I wondered lonely as a cloud...I saw a host of golden daffodils

Beside a lake, beneath the tree, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.......and so on. I love poetry but now out of all thepoems I love Ulysees.....its the best poem ever written.
Reply:Hey diddle diddle

The cat did a piddle

All over the bathroom floor

The little dog laughed to see such fun

So the cat did a little bit more.
Reply:I loved everything from Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree...).



Actually, I still like his poems, and I'm nearly 30--how can you not like the guy who wrote "A Boy Named Sue?!"
Reply:Carl Sandberg's 'Red Shoes"
Reply:"A Dutch Lullaby" aka Wynken, Blynken and Nod - by Eugene Field
Reply:Somehow; of all the poems we were made to learn in school I remember loving Wordsworth the most. My favourite poems are 'Daffodils' and 'Solitary Reaper' by Wordsworth and also highway man
Reply:"Elegy for Jane" by Theodore Roethke.
Reply:The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe
Reply:' It was just before dawn

one miserable morn, in black 44.

when the forward commander was

told to sit tight,when he asked

that his men be withdrawn....
Reply:Where The Sidewalk Ends By Shel Silverstien
Reply:Shel Silverstein has an entire book "Where The Sidewalk Ends" all of those poems are hillarious, written especially for children. I think my favorite was about the little girl who can't go to school because she has this huge list of ailments until her mother says "It's Saturday" to which the little girl replies "Oh yeah, I'm going out to play". Also loved:



Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too

Went for a ride in a flying shoe

Said Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too

Whatever Shall We Do



I think that's how it went
Reply:ahh man.. whats that book called?



sidewalks from the edge? :)



with all those silly poems. i loved that book :)
Reply:You gave me a wonderful gift today

That made my life worthwhile

Although a very simple thing

I loved your lovely smile



You really timed it perfectly

I sure was feeling sad

Funny how such a little thing

Could make me feel so glad



Now if I see someone unhappy

Here's what I'm going to do

I'm going to keep on smiling

Until they're smiling to
Reply:little miss alice
Reply:The Cremation of Sam McGee - Jack London
Reply:Yesterday upon the stair

I met a man who wasn't there.

He wasn't there again today

I wish that man would go away.



--William Hughes Mearns
Reply:"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

by: Robert Frost



Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold;

Her early leaf's a flower,

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

And Eden sank to grief.

Dawn turns into day

Nothing gold can stay.



I had to memorize it in the eighth grade when we read The Outsiders.
Reply:roses are red vilots are blur chocolates are sweet but not as sweet as you.! my old time favorite!
Reply:I cant remember the words very well anymore, but it's by Langston Hughes and it's like a pep talk "if you think you can , you can", something like that.
Reply:Can you recite "Daffodils" for me please, i cant remember how it goes.
Reply:"Do not go gentle into that good night"
Reply:"Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands..." something or other.
Reply:Who put a big hole in a bucket
Reply:Oh! I have slipped the surley bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings...



I can't remember the guys name, but the poem is called 'high flight' and it means a great deal to me.....
Reply:As a kid it would have to be "Green eggs and ham"
Reply:'The mask of anarchy' by Shelley
Reply:There once was a man from Nantucket....
Reply:The owl and the pussycat
Reply:im a little fishy

I live down in the sea

I swim around

without a sound

i like being me
Reply:NNnnnnn?
Reply:Poetry is lame