MODG Poetry List K-8th grade

Kindergarten “Rain” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Cow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Moon” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“At the Sea Side” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Turtle” by Vachel Lindsey

First Grade “Windy Nights” by Robert Louis Stevenson

”The Wind” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Foreign Lands” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Where Go the Boats” by Robert Louis Stevenson

‘’The Land of Counterpane’’ by Robert Louis

Stevenson

“The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Second Grade “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear

“Stopping by the Wood on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

Psalm 100

“The Duel” by Eugene Field

“The Land of Storybooks” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Song of Mr. Toad” by Kenneth Graham

Third Grade “The Flag Goes By” by Henry Halcomb Bennett

“The Children’s Hour” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The Village Blacksmith” by Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

The Preamble to the Constitution

Fourth Grade “America for Me” by Henry Van Dyke

“Sea Fever” by John Masefield

“Christmas Everywhere” by Philip Brooks

“Columbus” by Joaquin Miller

“Spring” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fifth Grade “George Washington” by Rosemary and Stephen

Vincent Binet

“Benjamin Franklin” by Rosemary and Stephen

Vincent Binet

“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

“Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Old Ironsides” by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Oh Captain, My Captain” by Walt Whitman

Sixth Grade “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord

Tennyson

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

“The Fool’s Prayer” by Edward Rowland Sill

“The Desctruction of Sennecharib” by Goerge Lord Byron

Seventh Grade The Temptest Act V, Scene I, Lines 34-58

Henry V Act IV, Scene iii, Lines 17-67

Henry V Act IV Scene I, Lines 230-284

Julius Caesar Act III, Scene ii, Lines 76-109

Eighth Grade Macbeth Act V, Scene v, Lines 19-27

The Merchant of Venice Act IV Scene i,

Lines 17-67

The Merchant of Venice Act V, Scene I, Lines 53-88

Sonnet XVIII, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Sonnett XIX, Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paus

Sonnett XXX, When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Sonnett XXXVI, Let me confess that we two must be twain

Sonnett CXVI Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Sonnet CXXXVIII, When my love swears that she is made of truth (students choose three sonnets to memorize)