Poems Read in Class 2010-2011

This is our official reading list for the school year.

  1. "If" by Rudyard Kipling
  2. "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
  3. "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  4. "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  5. "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  6. "The Tale of Custard the Dragon" by Ogden Nash
  7. "Noah" by Roy Daniells
  8. "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes
  9. "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
  10. "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes
  11. "Abuelito Who" by Sandra Cisneros
  12. "When You Forget to Feed Your Gerbil" by Denise Duhamel
  13. "The Shark" by John Ciardi
  14. "The Kraken" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  15. "Lone Dog" by Irene Rutherford McLeod
  16. "The Panic Bird" by Robert Phillips
  17. "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House" by Billy Collins
  18. "A Barred Owl" by Richard Wilbur
  19. "Children's Story" by Slick Rick
  20. "Jim Who Ran Away from His Nurse and Was Eaten by a Lion" by Hilaire Belloc
  21. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens
  22. "Flash Cards" by Rita Dove
  23. "Brandon Branson's Backpack" by Kenn Nesbitt
  24. "Memento Mori in Middle School" by Diane Thiel
  25. "Shadow March" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  26. "Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1" by William Shakespeare
  27. "Nine Little Goblins" by James Whitcomb Riley
  28. "Darkness" by George Gordon, Lord Byron
  29. "Something Told the Wild Geese," by Rachel Field
  30. "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e. cummings
  31. "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  32. "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by William Butler Yeats
  33. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
  34. "Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed
  35. "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
  36. "Grass" by Carl Sandburg
  37. "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border" by William Stafford
  38. "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda
  39. "Thanksgiving" by Mac Hammond
  40. "Prayer Before Birth" by Louis MacNeice
  41. "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes
  42. "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
  43. "Persistence of Song" by Howard Moss
  44. "The Fear of Beasts" by William Meredith
  45. "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas
  46. "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
  47. "Life is Fine" by Langston Hughes
  48. "Take One Home for the Kiddies" by Philip Larkin
  49. "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur
  50. "London Snow" by Robert Bridges
  51. "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
  52. "Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  53. "Cartoon Physics, Part 1" by Nick Flynn
  54. "Childhood's Retreat" by Robert Duncan
  55. "Those Winder Sundays" by Robert Hayden
  56. "Warning to Children" by Robert Graves
  57. "Through the Window of the All-Night Restaurant" by Nicholas Christopher
  58. "Wind" by Amy Lowell
  59. "A Thunderstorm" by Archibald Lampman
  60. "Shirt" by Robert Pinsky
  61. "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
  62. "For Mohammed Zaid of Gaza, Age 15" by Naomi Shihab Nye
  63. "My Father's Hat" by Mark Irwin
  64. "Hardware" by Ronald Wallace
  65. "The Portrait" by Stanley Kunitz
  66. "Father's Song" by Gregory Orr
  67. "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
  68. "Maybe Dats Youwr Pwoblem Too" by Jim Hall
  69. "Noah" by Roy Daniells
  70. "Sweater Weather" by Sharon Bryan
  71. "Saying Things" by Marilyn Krysl
  72. "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
  73. "Player Piano" by John Updike
  74. "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
  75. "Casabianca" by Felicia Hemans
  76. "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
  77. "Alone" by Maya Angelou
  78. "Bereft" by Robert Frost
  79. "The Rider" by Naomi Shihab Nye
  80. "The Grammar Lesson" by Steve Kowitt
  81. "Winter Syntax" by Billy Collins
  82. "Fast Break" by Edward Hirsch
  83. "Legend" by Judith Wright
  84. "Power" by Corinne Hales
  85. "The Whipping" by Robert Hayden
  86. "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
  87. "Did I Miss Anything" by Tom Wayman
  88. "Forgetfulness" by Billy Collins
  89. "The Art of Losing" by Elizabeth Bishop
  90. "in-Just" by e.e. cummings
  91. "Bicycle Spring" by Kevin FitzPatrick
  92. "A March Snow" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  93. "The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee" by Mildred Plew Meigs
  94. "Cargoes" by John Masefield
  95. "Song of Perfect Propriety" by Dorothy Parker
  96. "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield
  97. "Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith
  98. "A Ballad of John Silver" by John Masefield
  99. "Sea Lullaby" by Elinor Wylie
  100. "Possum Crossing" by Nikki Giovanni
  101. "The Heaven of Animals" by James Dickey
  102. "The Cat and the Moon" by W.B. Yeats
  103. "How to Eat a Poem" by Eve Merriam
  104. "I Have to Write a Poem" by Kenn Nesbitt
  105. "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
  106. "The Armful" by Robert Frost
  107. "How to Uproot a Tree" by Jennifer K. Sweeney
  108. "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
  109. "The Listeners" by Walter de la Mare
  110. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
  111. "The White House" by Claude McKay
  112. "Root Cellar" by Theodore Roethke
  113. "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning"
  114. "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden
  115. "The Cross of Snow" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  116. "The Portrait" by Stanley Kunitz
  117. "Bed in Summer" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  118. "Enchantment" by Joanne Ryder
  119. "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver
  120. "Seeing the World" by Steven Herrick