Suggestions of Poems for Voice Thread Project
If you decide to choose one of these, you must clear it with me first. Two people
cannot have the same poem!!!
1. “Loveliest of Trees” by A.E. Housman (1859-1936) – page 792
2. “Design” by Robert Frost (1874-1963) –page 796
3. “I had heard it’s a fight” by Edwin Denby – page 803
4. “Ending” by Gavin Ewart – page 820
5. “My Number” by Billy Collins (1941- ) - 801
6. “My mistress’ eyes” by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) – page 809
7. “Crossing the Bar” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) – page 810
8. “Miracle Ice Cream” by Adrienne Rich (1929- ) – page 810
9. “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) – page 826
10.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) – page 831
11. “Woman Work” by Maya Angelou (1928- ) – page 832
12. “In Those Years” by Adrienne Rich (1929- ) – page 836
13. “The Knight” by Adrienne Rich – page 855
14. “Had I the Choice” by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) – page 854
15.“Old Ladies’ Home” by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) – page 856
16. “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan (1932- ) – page 858
17. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) – page
875
18. “Golden Retrievals” by Mark Dory (1953- ) – page 880
19. “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
20. “On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High” by D.C. Berry
(1942- ) – page 945
21. “Pity me not” by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) –page 982
22.“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) – page 997
23.“Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soryinka (1934- )
24.“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) – page 764
25.“Leda and the Swan” by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) – page
788
26. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
– page 1019
27.“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) – page 1008
28.“Pathedy of Manners by Ellen Kay (1931- ) – page 689
29. “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath – page 986