mind posting poems your children have memorized?

We have mostly memorized the ones in Primary Language Lessons, but in case you don’t have that, here they are:

To a Butterfly by William Wordsworth

Psalm 100

The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Brown Thrush by Lucy Larcom

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field

The Journey by Josephine Preston Peabody

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

One, Two, Three by Henry Cuyler Bunner

The Wonderful World by William Brightly Rands

November by Alice Cary

And last, but not least, but certainly the most non-CM styled poem yet…..Homework oh Homework, I hate you.  You stink. by Jack Prelutsky  (Lol – the kids asked me what poems I had to memorize when I went to school, so I recited the only one I could remember learning in 3rd grade.  Then the kids wanted to memorize it.)

I never thought of memorizing some of the poems we were studying!  I don’t know why, but I didn’t!  Thanks for the idea!

Can’t think what it is called – it is in “Now we are 6” by A.A. Milne (or maybe it was “When we were young” by A.A. Milne)

It is called something like “the stair”

starts something like

“Halfway down the stair is a stair where I sit

there isn’t any other stair quite like it…

It isn’t at the bottom and it isn’t at the top

So this is the stair where I always stop”

(and it goes on…..)

The Swing

The Land of Nod

The Little Black Hen

My Shadow

One of my favorite poetry memorizing phases was when my two older girls memorized “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.

When my middle daughter was 8 or 9, she memorized a poem called “Oh There Once Was a Puffin” that began very appealingly like this:

Oh, there once was a Puffin

Just the shape of a muffin,

And he lived on an island

In the bright blue sea!