Short poems to memorize
Every poem here is 16 lines or fewer: a sonnet, a quatrain or two, a handful of couplets. Short enough to learn in one sitting and keep for life. Pick one — it opens in the Memorizun trainer.
- The Eagle — Lord Alfred Tennyson · 6 lines
- Requiem — Robert Louis Stevenson · 8 lines
- There is no Frigate like a Book — Emily Dickinson · 8 lines
- I'm Nobody! Who are you? — Emily Dickinson · 8 lines
- The Sick Rose — William Blake · 8 lines
- My Heart Leaps Up — William Wordsworth · 9 lines
- "Hope" is the thing with feathers — Emily Dickinson · 12 lines
- Success is counted sweetest — Emily Dickinson · 12 lines
- Wild nights – Wild nights! — Emily Dickinson · 12 lines
- So We'll Go No More a-Roving — George Gordon, Lord Byron · 12 lines
- The Arrow and the Song — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 12 lines
- When You Are Old — W. B. Yeats · 12 lines
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree — W. B. Yeats · 12 lines
- There Will Come Soft Rains — Sara Teasdale · 12 lines
- Pied Beauty — Gerard Manley Hopkins · 11 lines
- Leisure — W. H. Davies · 14 lines
- Trees — Joyce Kilmer · 13 lines
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds — William Shakespeare · 14 lines
- Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 14 lines
- The New Colossus — Emma Lazarus · 14 lines
- Remember — Christina Rossetti · 14 lines
- In Flanders Fields — John McCrae · 15 lines
- Invictus — William Ernest Henley · 16 lines
- Crossing the Bar — Lord Alfred Tennyson · 16 lines
- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 — William Wordsworth · 14 lines
- When I Have Fears — John Keats · 14 lines
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art — John Keats · 14 lines
- God's Grandeur — Gerard Manley Hopkins · 14 lines
- London — William Blake · 16 lines
- Adlestrop — Edward Thomas · 16 lines
- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven — W. B. Yeats · 8 lines
- Hark, Hark! the Lark — William Shakespeare · 9 lines
- Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now — A. E. Housman · 12 lines
- L'Envoi (When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted) — Rudyard Kipling · 12 lines
- The Swing — Robert Louis Stevenson · 12 lines
- On His Blindness — John Milton · 14 lines
- Anthem for Doomed Youth — Wilfred Owen · 14 lines
- Futility — Wilfred Owen · 14 lines
- We Wear the Mask — Paul Laurence Dunbar · 15 lines
- Concord Hymn — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 16 lines
- Sweet and Low — Lord Alfred Tennyson · 16 lines
- Up-Hill — Christina Rossetti · 16 lines