So you want to start memorizing poetry in Morning Time. You know you should start with something that delights you as the Mama. But there are millions of possibilities! Where to begin?
Start here with my list of 100 of the best poems to memorize in Morning Time!
I even have a checklist you can print out and keep in your homeschool planner. Imagine how much fun it will be to look back and see how many beautiful words and delightful ideas you and your children now know by heart!
Be sure to check out the Year of Memory Work, where I have recorded video recitations of several of these selections.
- โA December Day,โ Sara Teasdale
- โA Mighty Fortress,โ Martin Luther
- โA Negro Love Song,โ Paul Laurence Dunbar
- โA Red, Red Rose,โ Robert Burns
- โA Walking Song,โ J. R. R. Tolkien
- โA was an Apple Pie,โ traditional nursery rhyme
- โAll Things Bright and Beautiful,โ Cecil Frances Alexander
- โAmazing Grace,โ John Newton
- โArithmetic,โ Carl Sandburg
- โBaa, Baa, Black Sheep,โ traditional nursery rhyme
- โBatter My Heart,โ John Donne
- โBe Glad Your Nose is On Your Face,โ Jack Prelutsky
- โBe Thou My Vision,โ translated by Eleanor Hull
- โCaged Bird,โ Maya Angelou
- โCasey at the Bat,โ Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- โCaterpillar,โ Christina Rossetti
- โDaffodils,โ William Wordsworth
- โDeath Be Not Proud,โ John Donne
- โDigging,โ Seamus Heaney
- โDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,โ Dylan Thomas
- โDover Beach,โ Matthew Arnold
- โEletelephony,โ Laura E. Richards
- โFortune,โ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- โHey Diddle Diddle,โ traditional nursery rhyme
- โhist whist,โ e. e. cummings
- โHoratius at the Bridge,โ Thomas Babington, Lord Macauley
- โI Had a Little Nut Tree,โ traditional nursery rhyme
- โI Know a Bank,โ William Shakespeare
- โIliad,โ lines 1-16, Homer
- โIโm Nobody, Who are You?โ Emily Dickinson
- โIf,โ Rudyard Kipling
- โIn Flanders Field,โ John Macrae
- โIn the Bleak Midwinter,โ Christina Georgina Rossetti
- โIntro to Paradise Lost,โ John Milton
- โIt Couldnโt Be Done,โ Edgar Guest
- โJabberwocky,โ Lewis Carroll
- โKing Alfredโs War Songโ
- โKubla Khan,โ Samuel Coleridge
- โLady of Shallott,โ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- โLaughing Time,โ William Jay Smith
- โLittle Miss Muffet,โ traditional nursery rhyme
- โLochinvar,โ Sir Walter Scott
- โMidnight Ride of Paul Revere,โ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- โMost Glorious Lord of Life,โ Edmund Spenser
- โMother to Son,โ Langston Hughes
- โMy Shadow,โ Robert Louis Stevenson
- โNew Colossus,โ Emma Lazarus
- โNothing Gold Can Stay,โ Robert Frost
- โO Captain, My Captain,โ Walt Whitman
- โOde on a Grecian Urn,โ John Keats
- โOld Mother Hubbard,โ Sarah Catherine Martin
- โOn His Blindness,โ John Milton
- โOzymandias,โ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- โPied Beauty,โ Gerard Manley Hopkins
- โPoem,โ William Carlos Williams
- โPrologue to the Canterbury Tales,โ Geoffrey Chaucer
- Psalm 23
- Psalm 51
- Psalm 100
- Psalm 139
- Psalm 150
- โQuality of Mercy,โ William Shakespeare
- โRing-A-Ring,โ Kate Greenaway
- โSea Fever,โ John Masefield
- โShe Walks in Beauty,โ Lord Byron
- โSkyscrapers,โ Rachel Field
- โSneezles,โ A. A. Milne
- โSonnet 116,โ William Shakespeare
- โSonnets from the Portuguese XXIX,โ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- โSt. Patrickโs Breastplateโ
- โStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,โ Robert Frost
- โThe Altar,โ George Herbert
- โThe Baby,โ George Macdonald
- โThe Charge of the Light Brigade,โ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- โThe Destruction of Sennacherib,โ Lord Byron
- โThe Eagle,โ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- โThe Frog,โ Hilaire Belloc
- โThe Glove and the Lions,โ Leigh Hunt
- โThe Highwayman,โ Alfred Noyes
- โThe Jumblies,โ Edward Lear
- โThe Kite,โ Harry Behn
- โThe Lake Isle of Innisfree,โ W. B. Yeats
- โThe Lamb,โ William Blake
- โThe Lost Doll,โ Charles Kingsley
- โThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,โ T. S. Eliot
- โThe Meehoo and the Exactlywatt,โ Shel Silverstein
- โThe Nymphโs Reply to the Shepherd,โ Sir Walter Raleigh
- โThe Old Pond,โ Matsuo Basho
- โThe Owl and the Pussycat,โ Edward Lear
- โThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love,โ Christopher Marlowe
- โThe Raven,โ Edgar Allen Poe
- โThe Road Not Taken,โ Robert Frost
- โThe Spider and the Fly,โ Mary Howitt
- โThe Tyger,โ William Blake
- โThe Wild Rose,โ Wendell Berry
- โThe Yak,โ Hilaire Belloc
- โTrees,โ Joyce Kilmer
- โWe Wear the Mask,โ Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- โWhat the Mirror Said,โ Lucille Clifton
- โWynken, Blynken, and Nod,โ Eugene Field
Don’t forget to download your free printable copy of the best poems for Morning Time checklist!
Want even more memory work resources? Start here:
- How to Choose the Best Memory Work for Your Homeschool
- What isย Morning Time?
- Memory Work From a Real Mom’s Perspective
- Memory Work Resource Pack: Middle Ages
- Memory Work Resource Pack: Ecumenical Creeds
- Ultimate Poetry Book List
- The Year of Memory Workย (52 weeks of video recitations and printablesโฆFREE)
- Ultimate Poetry Book List
- Introduction to Poetry
- Poem in Your Pocket Dayย printables
- Exploring Shakespeare with Children
- 12 Poems Everyone Should Know By Heart
- Can you Haiku?
- Poetry Free Writing
- Facebook Live sharing 4 new poetry books Iโm excited about
- YouTube playlist of my Year of Memory Work recitations
Find even more “100 Things” tips, tricks, books, hands-on projects, lessons, games, or ideas here!
Oh, these are some great poems!
So happy to find these list of poems for our morning time & to enjoy as part of our poetry teatime ๐ Thanks so much for sharing! (Found this amazing resource through Practical Ideas for Homeschool Moms link-up)
Thanks, Amy!
The Practical Ideas for Homeschool Moms Link-up has been so fun!