100 of the Best Poems to Memorize in Morning Time

100 best poems for memory work
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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.

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  1. โ€œA December Day,โ€ Sara Teasdale
  2. โ€œA Mighty Fortress,โ€ Martin Luther
  3. โ€œA Negro Love Song,โ€ Paul Laurence Dunbar
  4. โ€œA Red, Red Rose,โ€ Robert Burns
  5. โ€œA Walking Song,โ€ J. R. R. Tolkien
  6. โ€œA was an Apple Pie,โ€ traditional nursery rhyme
  7. โ€œAll Things Bright and Beautiful,โ€ Cecil Frances Alexander
  8. โ€œAmazing Grace,โ€ John Newton
  9. โ€œArithmetic,โ€ Carl Sandburg
  10. โ€œBaa, Baa, Black Sheep,โ€ traditional nursery rhyme
  11. โ€œBatter My Heart,โ€ John Donne
  12. โ€œBe Glad Your Nose is On Your Face,โ€ Jack Prelutsky
  13. โ€œBe Thou My Vision,โ€ translated by Eleanor Hull
  14. โ€œCaged Bird,โ€ Maya Angelou
  15. โ€œCasey at the Bat,โ€ Ernest Lawrence Thayer
  16. โ€œCaterpillar,โ€ Christina Rossetti
  17. โ€œDaffodils,โ€ William Wordsworth
  18. โ€œDeath Be Not Proud,โ€ John Donne
  19. โ€œDigging,โ€ Seamus Heaney
  20. โ€œDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,โ€ Dylan Thomas
  21. โ€œDover Beach,โ€ Matthew Arnold
  22. โ€œEletelephony,โ€ Laura E. Richards
  23. โ€œFortune,โ€ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  24. โ€œHey Diddle Diddle,โ€ traditional nursery rhyme
  25. โ€œhist whist,โ€ e. e. cummings
  26. โ€œHoratius at the Bridge,โ€ Thomas Babington, Lord Macauley
  27. โ€œI Had a Little Nut Tree,โ€ traditional nursery rhyme
  28. โ€œI Know a Bank,โ€ William Shakespeare
  29. โ€œIliad,โ€ lines 1-16, Homer
  30.  โ€œIโ€™m Nobody, Who are You?โ€ Emily Dickinson
  31. โ€œIf,โ€ Rudyard Kipling
  32. โ€œIn Flanders Field,โ€ John Macrae
  33. โ€œIn the Bleak Midwinter,โ€ Christina Georgina Rossetti
  34. โ€œIntro to Paradise Lost,โ€ John Milton
  35. โ€œIt Couldnโ€™t Be Done,โ€ Edgar Guest
  36. โ€œJabberwocky,โ€ Lewis Carroll
  37. โ€œKing Alfredโ€™s War Songโ€
  38. โ€œKubla Khan,โ€ Samuel Coleridge
  39. โ€œLady of Shallott,โ€ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  40. โ€œLaughing Time,โ€ William Jay Smith
  41. โ€œLittle Miss Muffet,โ€ traditional nursery rhyme
  42. โ€œLochinvar,โ€ Sir Walter Scott
  43. โ€œMidnight Ride of Paul Revere,โ€ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  44. โ€œMost Glorious Lord of Life,โ€ Edmund Spenser
  45. โ€œMother to Son,โ€ Langston Hughes
  46. โ€œMy Shadow,โ€ Robert Louis Stevenson
  47.  โ€œNew Colossus,โ€ Emma Lazarus
  48. โ€œNothing Gold Can Stay,โ€ Robert Frost
  49. โ€œO Captain, My Captain,โ€ Walt Whitman
  50. โ€œOde on a Grecian Urn,โ€ John Keats
  51. โ€œOld Mother Hubbard,โ€ Sarah Catherine Martin
  52. โ€œOn His Blindness,โ€ John Milton
  53. โ€œOzymandias,โ€ Percy Bysshe Shelley
  54. โ€œPied Beauty,โ€ Gerard Manley Hopkins
  55. โ€œPoem,โ€ William Carlos Williams
  56. โ€œPrologue to the Canterbury Tales,โ€ Geoffrey Chaucer
  57. Psalm 23
  58. Psalm 51
  59. Psalm 100
  60. Psalm 139
  61. Psalm 150
  62. โ€œQuality of Mercy,โ€ William Shakespeare
  63. โ€œRing-A-Ring,โ€ Kate Greenaway
  64. โ€œSea Fever,โ€ John Masefield
  65. โ€œShe Walks in Beauty,โ€ Lord Byron
  66. โ€œSkyscrapers,โ€ Rachel Field
  67. โ€œSneezles,โ€ A. A. Milne
  68. โ€œSonnet 116,โ€ William Shakespeare
  69. โ€œSonnets from the Portuguese XXIX,โ€ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  70. โ€œSt. Patrickโ€™s Breastplateโ€
  71. โ€œStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,โ€ Robert Frost
  72. โ€œThe Altar,โ€ George Herbert
  73. โ€œThe Baby,โ€ George Macdonald
  74. โ€œThe Charge of the Light Brigade,โ€ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  75. โ€œThe Destruction of Sennacherib,โ€ Lord Byron
  76. โ€œThe Eagle,โ€ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  77. โ€œThe Frog,โ€ Hilaire Belloc
  78. โ€œThe Glove and the Lions,โ€ Leigh Hunt
  79. โ€œThe Highwayman,โ€ Alfred Noyes
  80. โ€œThe Jumblies,โ€ Edward Lear
  81. โ€œThe Kite,โ€ Harry Behn
  82. โ€œThe Lake Isle of Innisfree,โ€ W. B. Yeats
  83. โ€œThe Lamb,โ€ William Blake
  84. โ€œThe Lost Doll,โ€ Charles Kingsley
  85. โ€œThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,โ€ T. S. Eliot
  86. โ€œThe Meehoo and the Exactlywatt,โ€ Shel Silverstein
  87. โ€œThe Nymphโ€™s Reply to the Shepherd,โ€ Sir Walter Raleigh
  88. โ€œThe Old Pond,โ€ Matsuo Basho
  89. โ€œThe Owl and the Pussycat,โ€ Edward Lear
  90. โ€œThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love,โ€ Christopher Marlowe
  91. โ€œThe Raven,โ€ Edgar Allen Poe
  92. โ€œThe Road Not Taken,โ€ Robert Frost
  93. โ€œThe Spider and the Fly,โ€ Mary Howitt
  94. โ€œThe Tyger,โ€ William Blake
  95. โ€œThe Wild Rose,โ€ Wendell Berry
  96. โ€œThe Yak,โ€ Hilaire Belloc
  97. โ€œTrees,โ€ Joyce Kilmer
  98. โ€œWe Wear the Mask,โ€ Paul Lawrence Dunbar
  99. โ€œWhat the Mirror Said,โ€ Lucille Clifton
  100. โ€œWynken, Blynken, and Nod,โ€ Eugene Field

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3 thoughts on “100 of the Best Poems to Memorize in Morning Time”

  1. So happy to find these list of poems for our morning time & to enjoy as part of our poetry teatime ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks so much for sharing! (Found this amazing resource through Practical Ideas for Homeschool Moms link-up)

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