Famous Recitation Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Recitation poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous recitation poems. These examples illustrate what a famous recitation poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Emily Dickinson
I can't tell you -- but you feel it --
Nor can you tell me --
Saints, with ravished slate and pencil
Solve our April Day!
Sweeter than a vanished frolic
From a vanished green!
Swifter than the hoofs of Horsemen
Round a Ledge of dream!
Modest, let us walk among it
With our faces veiled --
As they say polite Archangels
Do in meeting God!
Not for me -- to...Read more of this...
by
Vachel Lindsay
A Recitation for Martha Wakefield, Three Years Old
There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow.
And he snapped at me.
He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow.
But he didn't catch me....Read more of this...
by
Emily Dickinson
Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
That arise and set about Us --
Other Tragedy
Perish in the Recitation --
This -- the best enact
When the Audience is scattered
And the Boxes shut --
"Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet --
Had not Shakespeare wrote --
Though the "Romeo" left no Record
Of his Juliet,
It were infinite enacted
In the Human Heart --
Only Theatre recorded
Owner cannot shut --...Read more of this...
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