Forget-Me-Nots: poems to learn by heart

I was made to memorize poems when I was in school, but, unfortunately, remember only one of them,  Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and then only the third stanza at that!

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
   Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
   Rode the six hundred.

 
Forget-Me-Nots: poems to learn by Heart, selected by former Children's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Winner, Mary Ann Hoberman, is a collection of poems suitable for memorizing. Poets include Robert Louis Stevenson, Ogden Nash, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Douglas Florian, and more.

Fog by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Next time you visit the Scarborough Public Library, ask Marilyn to recite a poem. She has a wealth of them

stored in her memory.