Poem a Day For the Gifted

Week 1: 

Theme:  Love

            Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) - England

                        “Love and Age”

Week 2

Theme:  Love

            George Crabbe (1754-1832) - England

“My Mother’s Wedding Ring”

Week 3

            Theme:  Events

            Anonymous

                        “Twas the Night of Thanksgiving”

Week 4

            Theme:  Events

            Clement Clark Moore (1779-1863) - USA

                        “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

Week 5

            Theme:  Distant Lands

            Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - England

                        “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Week 6

Theme:  Distant Lands

            Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) - Scotland

“Travel”

Week 7

            Theme:  Home and Work

            Walt Whitman (1819-1892) – USA

                        “I Hear America Singing”

Week 8

            Theme:  Home and Work

            Sojourner Truth ((1797-1883) – USA

                        “Ain’t I A Woman?”

Week 9

            Theme:  War and Heroism

            Frances Scott Key (1779-1843) - USA

                        “The Star Spangled Banner”

Week 10

            Theme:  War and Heroism

            Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) - England

                        “Morte’ de Arthur”

Week 11

            Theme:  Animals

            Edward Lear (1812-1888) - England

            “The Owl and the Pussycat”

Week 12

            Theme:  Animals

            Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) - England

            “You Are Old, Father William”

Week 13

            Theme:  Wit and Humor

            Anonymous

            “If You Should Meet a Crocodile”

Week 14

            Theme:  Wit and Humor

            William Percy French (1854-1920) – Ireland

            “Mountains of Mourne”

Week 15

            Theme:  Into the Shadows

Robert Browning (1812-1889 -England

                        “The Pied Piper of Hamlin”

Week 16

            Theme:  Into the Shadows

            Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) - England

                        “The Lady of Shaillot”

Week 17

            Theme:  Nature

            Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) – USA

                        “The Song of Hiawatha”

Week 18

            Theme: Nature

            William Wordsworth (1779-1850) – England

                        “Daffodils”

Week 19

            Theme:  Weather and Seasons

            Robert Bridges (1844-1930) - England

                        “London Snow”

Week 20

            Theme:  Weather and Seasons

            Anonymous

            “Red Sky At Night”

Week 21

            Theme:  Life and Death

            John Donne (1572-1631) - England

                        ‘Death Be Not Proud”

Week 22

            Theme:  Life and Death

            William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - England

                        “All the World’s A Stage”  from As You Like It

Week 23

            Theme:  Lasting Classics

            William Blake 1757-1827) - England

                        “The Tyger”

Week 24

            Theme:  Lasting Classics

            Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) - USA

                        “The Raven”