Anna Bell Lee – by Edgar Alan Poe
- the meter
- “angels envious”
If – by Rudyard Kipling
- Lee’s dad asked him to learn this one
- Lots of psychiatric help here
- it’s a poem, but this is a piece of human psychology
Dover Beach – by Matthew Arnold
- Overtones of life references (high and low spots)
- Beautifully descriptive – “grating roar” for example
- “Puts me right there on the shore” – Lee Davis
- Lee’s dad had lots of positive red marks on this poem
The World Is Too Much with Us – William Wordsworth
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever – by John Keats
How Do I Love Thee – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pippa Passes (one verse only: “The year’s at the spring, the day’s at the morn.”) – by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“We are the Music Makers, we are the Dreamers of Dreams wandering by lone sea breakers and sitting by desolate streams, world-losers and world-forsakers on whom the pale moon gleams; yet we are the movers and shakers of the world forever it seems.” – by UNKNOWN
Sea Fever – by John Masefield
No man is an Island – by John Donne
“… yet all experience is an arch where through gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.” – by Alfred Lord Tennyson