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January 19, 2011 at 3:13 pm
joyinktm
Member
Hi! I’m looking for some new poems to memorize and wondered if people could post some they’ve had their children memorize.
Thanks,
Joy
January 19, 2011 at 3:30 pm
LindseyD
Participant
I don’t know how old your children are. Mine are now 5.5 and almost 7. Last school year we memorized several poems by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- The Swing
- The Cow
- Whole Duty of Children
- Rain
- The Land of Nod
- Singing
- A Good Boy
This year, we are working on Lewis Carroll poems, and those have been really fun so far. As of today, they have memorized:
- How Doth the Little Crocodile
- Beautiful Soup
- Brother and Sister
- ‘Tis the Voice of the Lobster
We will work on more by Lewis Carroll for the duration of this year, and next year we move on to Chrisitina Rossetti.
HTH,
Lindsey
January 19, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Laura.bora
Participant
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!
January 19, 2011 at 5:42 pm
baileymom
Member
We’ve used the poems from Primary Language Lessons for 7-8 yr olds.
Right now we’re using Winter Poems by Barbara Rogasky for copywork and memorization with my 10 yr old DD.
January 19, 2011 at 7:46 pm
suzukimom
Participant
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…..)
January 20, 2011 at 6:17 am
joyinktm
Member
Thanks for the great lists. My kiddos are 3, 5, 7, 9, boys and girls.
January 20, 2011 at 2:21 pm
coralloyd
Participant
The Swing
The Land of Nod
The Little Black Hen
My Shadow
March 17, 2018 at 9:26 am
J Nicole
Participant
This post is SOOOO helpful. We have only been using CM for 1 year and I think I am ready for us to begin memorizing poetry. Thx so much ladies for your insight. Blessings to all.

March 17, 2018 at 1:47 pm
alphabetika
Participant
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!
March 17, 2018 at 4:57 pm
Wings2fly
Participant
We started poetry memorization and recitation a few years ago. My daughter has really taken off with it. She loves to recite her poetry to grandparents and others, or just at random, or out of boredom! My son does not care for it, so he has memorized less. They pick their own poems and I use Claire’s method in this older post. Selection, copywork, study time saying it aloud, and finally recitation. We review the others every week or two. Some have stuck with her better than others. I have to keep reminding her to say beautiful words in a beautiful way.
https://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/memorizing-poetry-and-more/
This blog post was most helpful:
https://wheremytreasureis.wordpress.com/?s=Recitation
Many poems are selected from Favorite Poems Old and New, Helen Farris or A Child’s Treasury of Poems, Mark Daniel.