Tuesday, March 12, 2013

"Classic" Poems

Memorize any of these poems -- in whole or part -- for extra credit.

A. E. Housman. 1859–
33"Loveliest of Trees"
LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
  
Now, of my threescore years and ten,         5
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
  
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,  10
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

from http://www.bartleby.com/103/33.html


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[in Just-]

BY E. E. CUMMINGS
in Just-
spring          when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old balloonman whistles
far          and             wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's
spring
and

         the

                  goat-footed

balloonMan          whistles
far
and
wee

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