Reciting Poetry

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Reciting Poetry

• Standard 501.2.9

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Young and Oldby Charles Kingsley

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• When all the world is young, lad,And all the
  trees are green
• And every goose a swan, lad,And every lass a
  queen
• Then hey for boot and horse, lad,And round the
  world away

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• Young blood must have its course, lad,And every
  dog his day.
• When all the world is old, lad,And all the trees
  are brown
• When all the sport is stale, lad,And all the
  wheels run down

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• Creep home, and take your place there,The spent
  and maimed among
• God grant you find one face there,You loved when
  all was young.

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Young and Old

• This poem should be read quickly at first and
  more slowly towards the end. It tells of life
  from the perspective of a young man to an older
  man and how important it is to have loved ones in
  your life.

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The Land of Counterpaneby Robert Louis Stevenson

• When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows
  at my head, And all my toys beside me lay, To
  keep me happy all the day. 

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• And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my
  leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and
  drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the
  hills  

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• And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and
  down among the sheets Or brought my trees and
  houses out, And planted cities all about.  

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• I was the giant great and still That sits upon
  the pillow-hill, And sees before him, dale and
  plain, The pleasant land of counterpane.   

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The Land of Counterpane

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When reading this poem, think about a little boy
sick in bed playing with his toys. Read the poem
smoothly and quietly with happy memories as an
adult thinking back to his childhood.
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The Road Not Takenby Robert Frost

• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
• And sorry I could not travel both
• And be one traveler, long I stood
• And looked down one as far as I could
• To where it bent in the undergrowth

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• Then took the other, as just as fair,
• And having perhaps the better claim,
• Because it was grassy and wanted wear
• Though as for that the passing there
• Had worn them really about the same,   

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• And both that morning equally lay
• In leaves no step had trodden black.
• Oh, I kept the first for another day!
• Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
• I doubted if I should ever come back.

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• I shall be telling this with a sigh
• Somewhere ages and ages hence
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
• I took the one less traveled by,
• And that has made all the difference. 

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The Road Not Taken

• This is a poem about a choice that was made when
  the author was a young man. It should be read
  smoothly and slowly. The last line should be read
  with emphasis, as it is the theme of the poem.
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