Saturday, June 28, 2008

The Only Poem I have Memorized

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. --Robert Frost

I still love this poem. I know the challenge was to find a poem, but I wanted to share one of my favorites. I have bits and pieces of other poems memorized, but this one I know in its entirety.

Thanks to N.Vasillis for hosting this mini challenge.

7 comments:

Vasilly said...

You did great! It wasn't necessary to find a poem. Thanks for participating!

Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...

There's something special about a poem you know by heart.

In school, I had to memorize "Whose woods these are I think I know" and the first sixteen lines of The Canterbury Tales.

Dewey said...

This is my husband's favorite poem!

Brittanie said...

Beyond the Night is fantastic. :)

Eva said...

Very pretty! I have a few poems memorised, mainly in Russian (my two hundred level classes involved lots of poetry recitation) but some in English. I love memorising Longfellow. :D

Unknown said...

This is Ponyboy's favorite poem in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

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mary_m said...

Stay gold, Ponyboy!

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