If - Sally Church

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine (a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire) a great one by the way :) - directeur

"In a station of the metro" by Ezra Pound. I also know the opening stanzas of the Aeneid, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Hard to believe that my English Lit. degree gives me important bizness skillz. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

"I cannot go to school today ..." Shel Silverstein, that's mine. - anna sauce

I have parts of "The Raven" memorized, but it hasn't helped me much in the workplace. - B. Hatin

I still have the "Aunt Sponge" and "Aunt Spiker" poems memorized from James and the Giant Peach. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

English language is great for science, but is crappy for poetry. No poem in English could ever move me. Poems in Serbian can move me to tears, so I have memorized quite a few of them when I was a kid/teen. - Bora Zivkovic

I used to be able to do 'Stopping By a Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Frost, kinda rusty on that now. I can sing a few....if necesssary - Abigail

"Farewell" by Robert Nichols. http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsan... - Steven Perez

Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" so true and such good poetry.Best after a few dinner drinks of your choice - Paul Jones from twhirl

Alright, I'm cowed. I think I'll go memorize a li po poem. - anna sauce

@Bora it's all about what you know *now*, and then have 3 beers/whiskies and try to remember the poem. Also, you represent your nation's literature when you recite it. At all three of those I would fail, as all I know is a children's rhyme! - anna sauce

@Kaia that is a good one to recite. I keep thining "casey at the bat" or "annabel lee" (is that Poe too?) - anna sauce

Well I would fail too then. :) - CW™

do not go gentle into that good night -- Dylan Thomas - RAPatton

I recommend Ogden Nash for ease of memorising. Also funny and frequently based in biology. - Neil Saunders

Ego Trippin' and Phenomenal Woman. I use to have some Frost in my lineup, but I forget it now. - Admiral Anika

Then there's ones that you actualy know large chunks of by heart because you love the poem: Yeats, "second coming" " Turning and turning in the widening gyre/ The falcon cannot hear the falconer;" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - anna sauce

@Steven, this is nice: "Soothed by the charity of the deep-sea rain...." from "Farewell" - anna sauce

@Sally: "If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;" from "If" by Rudyard Kipling, nice http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_i... - anna sauce

(yes I'm reading all the poems) @directeur, tres joli: "Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure / Les jours s'en vont je demeure" I like the rhyming, and it's mysterious - anna sauce

"Road Not Taken" Robert Frost.http://www.flickr.com/photos... - jcunwired

@Sally - wow! I memorized "If" by Rudyard Kipling too! great stuff! - Susan Beebe

"Road Not Taken," Carroll's "Jabberwocky," and Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." I could probably have done more when I was still in college... more Whitman, for sure. - Cyndy

"Evidently Chicken Town". - Nine

Whan that April with his showres soote / The droughte of March hath perced to the roote... This is sick. I still remember this from Upper School, but can't remember what someone said to me five minutes ago. - MiniMage - HLtW

Anna, Susan... Had If drummed into me at school, saved me a few times in difficult biz situations too. More memorable than the Betjemen poems my teachers preferred ;) - Sally Church

LOL Mini. I know... my brain is filled with Latin song lyrics and Shakespearean soliloquys, yet never remember where I set my keys or what time my kids' lessons are. - Cyndy

WHOA! So much talent! I'd love to hear some of it in this room: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Christopher Harley

"dulce et decorum est," but i doubt i'll ever be able to use it at formal dinners. ;-) - Jessie

Cyndy, ah Whitman too, had forgotten about him... Only themselves understand themselves and the likes of themselves, as only souls understand souls. Or something like that anyway - Sally Church

Around the Corner I have a friend... - Robert Townsend(?) I think...also, my own poems... - Shelly Weiss