domingo, 23 de junio de 2013

MY TOP POEMS



(Memory plays a crucial part in FLL.Try to memorise, at least the first lines of the following famous poems):
  
TITLE                                                        WRITER
THE LESSON                                                             ROGER McGOUGH
LIMERICK/ THE OWL  & THE PUSSYCAT                 EDWARD LEAR
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY              GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE                                                    HART CRANE
YOUR HILLS ARE SHADOWS AND THEY FLOW    ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
WHAT LIPS MY LIPS HAVE KISSED    EDNA St. VINCENT MILLAY
THE COW IS OF THE BOVINE ILK                                 OGDEN NASH
FOR AGE IS OPPORTUNITY NO LESS    HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
YOUR WARS BROUGHT NOTHING ABOUT              JOHN DRYDEN
I KNOW YOU LAWYERS CAN WITH EASE                       JOHN GAY
MEDALLION  /     MUSHROOMS                                   SILVIA PLATH
IF                                                                                  RUDYARD KIPLING
FUTILITY                                                                        WILFRED OWEN
THE SOLDIER                                                             RUPERT BROOKE
DEATH OF A POET                                                CHARLES CAUSLEY
AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH                    W.B. YEATS
AULD LANG SYNE                                                         ROBERT BURNS
BATTER MY HEART                                                           JOHN DONNE
INVICTUS                                                                              W.E. HENLEY
SPAIN 1937                                                                               W.H. AUDEN
ODE TO THE WEST WIND                        PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN                                              ROBERT FROST
OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING    WALT WHITMAN
SONNET 18                                                                   W. SHAKESPEARE
PARADISE LOST                                                                        J. MILTON
THE WASTE LAND                                                                     T.S.ELIOT
HOW DO I LOVE THEE?                          ELIZABETH B. BROWNING
TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG                               A.E. HOUSMAN
THE OXEN                                                                     THOMAS HARDY
AUTUMN                                                             WALTER DE LA MARE
SNAKE                                                                              D.H.LAWRENCE
TO HIS COY MISTRESS                                       ANDREW MARVELL
THE CATARACT OF LODORE                             ROBERT SOUTHEY
THE TIGER                                                                  WILLIAM BLAKE
THE YOUNG HOUSEWIFE              WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
THE SCHOLAR GYPSY/DOVER BEACH       MATTHEW ARNOLD
THE GARDEN                                                                     EZRA POUND
THE RAVEN                                                                               E.A. POE
THE YEW TREE                                                    VERNON WATKINS
KUBLA KHAN                                               SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE
A GARDEN BY THE SEA                                      WILLIAM MORRIS
FAREWELL IN A DREAM                                STEPHEN SPENDER
A MAYPOLE                                                          JONATHAN SWIFT
THE ARMOURED VALLEY                                           LAURIE LEE
THE GREAT HUNGER                                 PATRICK KAVANAGH
WHERE GO THE BOATS                                       R.L. STEVENSON
NOVEMBER                                                                  THOMAS HOOD
ON MY FIRST SON                                                          BEN JONSON
THE NIGHT WIND                                                     EMILY BRONTE
UNDER THE OLIVES                                             ROBERT GRAVES
THE ROVER´S FAREWELL                             SIR WALTER SCOTT
HOWL                                                                      ALLEN GINSBERG
THE GOLDEN ECHO                         GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS
A DRINK OF WATER                                            SEAMUS HEANEY
NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING                             STEVIE SMITH
WALKING WOUNDED                                    VERNON SCANNELL
THE HOUSETOP                                              HERMAN MELVILLE
THE HORSES                                                                  EDWIN MUIR
TO HIS DEAD BODY                                      SIEGFRIED SASSOON
JABBERWOCKY                                                    LEWIS CARROLL
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD        ROBERT BROWNING
THE SCHOLAR´S LIFE                                   SAMUEL JOHNSON
A QUESTION                                                                     J.M. SYNGE
THE SNOW MAN                                           WALLACE STEVENS
HEART AND MIND                                              EDITH SITWELL
A CLOCK STOPPED                                      EMILY DICKINSON
A BIRTHDAY                       CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI
THE ANTEATER                                  ROALD DAHL 
FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE         SHEL SILVERSTEIN

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