2012 Megan Tingley Books: Little, Brown & Company
144 pages
Endpapers: Lilac
Goodreads: 4.00 - 265 ratings
A lovely mixture of old and new poems. Many favorites, some of which I've copied below:
Goodreads Summary: When you learn a poem by heart, it becomes a part of you. You know it in your mind, in your mouth, in your ears, in your whole body. And best of all, you know it forever.
From the creators of the bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series comes this new collection of poems especially suitable for learning by heart and saying aloud. With personal introductions by former Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman -- as well as her own time-tested tips and tools for memorization and recitation -- and vivid illustrations by Michael Emberley featuring his trademark wit and lively characters, Forget-Me-Nots includes more than 120 works from both classic and contemporary poets, from childhood favorites to lesser-known treasures.
This anthology will inspire a love of learning poetry!
Sometimes
Sometimes I like to be alone
And look up at the sky
And think my thoughts inside my head ---
Just me, myself, and I
Mary
Ann Hoberman
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
The Animal Store
If I had a hundred dollars to spend,
Or
maybe a little more,
I’d hurry as fast as my legs would go
Straight
to the animal store.
I wouldn’t say, “How much for this or that?”—
“What
kind of a dog is he?”
I’d buy as many as rolled an eye,
Or
wagged a taile at me!
I’d take the hound with the drooping ears
That
sits by himself alone,
Cockers and Cairns and wobbly pups
For
to be my very own.
I might buy a parrot all red and green,
And
the monkey I saw before,
If I had a hundred dollars to spend,
Or
maybe a little more.
Rachel
Field
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Night
Stars over snow,
And
in the west a planet
Swinging below a star ---
Look
for a lovely thing and you will find it,
It is not far ---
It
never will be far.
Sara
Teasdale
from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Toad by the Road
I’m only a toad
By the side of the road,
Watching the world go by.
Some bustle and hurry.
Some bustle and scurry.
Some wiggle, flicker, or fly.
They come and they go
On their way to and fro.
But I’d rather sit and sing.
It’s a glorious day,
So I’m happy to stay
And savor the songs of spring.
Joanne
Ryder
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
The Sun
I told the Sun that I was glad,
I’m
sure I don’t know why;
Somehow the pleasant way he had
Of shining
in the sky
Just put a notion in my head
That
wouldn’t it be fun
If, walking on the hill, I said
“I’m
happy” to the Sun.
John
Drinkwater
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Things
Went to the corner
Walked in the store
Bought me some candy
Ain’t got it no more
Ain’t got it no more
Went to the beach
Played on the shore
Built me a sandhouse
Ain’t got it no more
Ain’t got it no more
Went to the kitchen
Lay down on the floor
Made me a poem
Still got it
Still got it
Eloise
Greenfield
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Who Has Seen the
Wind?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither
I nor you;
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither
you nor I;
But when the trees bow down their heads
The
wind is passing by.
Christina
Rossetti
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
April Rain Song
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid
drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night –
And I love the rain.
Langston
Hughes
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and sky
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl
Sandburg
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
I Hear a Bird Sing
I heard a bird sing
In
the dark of December
A magical thing
And
sweet to remember.
“We are nearer to Spring
Than
we were in September,”
I heard a bird sing
In
the dark of December.
Oliver
Herford
from
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Dust of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Robert
Frost
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