Poetry Ideas for Memory Loss Tours at the Weisman Art Museum
Gary Glazner, Sparking Memories: The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Anthology
Available for order online at www.alzpoetry.com
Poems about Trees & Woods
Joyce Kilmer, “Trees”
http://www.poetry-archive.com/k/trees.html
Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
Poems & Quotes about Stars
Robert Frost, “Stars”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, short poem:
http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/topics/stars
Poems & Quotes about Rain
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/thematic_poems/rain_poems.html
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/rain
http://thinkexist.com/search/searchQuotation.asp?search=rain
Lee Emmett, “Gentle Sound of Rain”
http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=156713
Poems about Boats
Robert Louis Stevenson, “Where Go The Boats”
http://www.bartleby.com/188/115.html
Alfred Lloyd Tennyson, “Crossing the Bar”
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/tennyson/crossing_bar.html
Poems about Seasons
Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bed in Summer”
http://www.lnstar.com/mall/literature/rls/BedinSummer.htm
E.E. Cummings, “Perhaps for Spring”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20045
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21417
D.H. Lawrence, “The Enkindled Spring”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21415
Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15745
Robert Frost, “Dust of Snow”
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22786
Poems about Flowers (including poppies)
Mary Oliver, “Poppies”
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoem142.html
John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm
William Wordsworth, “Daffodils”
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/daffodils/
Poems about Fairs
Edwin C. Ranck, “The County Fair”
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/45652/
Kristie Woll, “Fair”
http://www.prairiepoetry.org/poetry06/poems/wollk1.html
Poems about Trains
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Travel”
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/m/travel.html
Lola Ridge, “Train Windows”
http://www.blackcatpoems.com/r/train_windows.html
Carl Sandburg, “Limited”
http://carl-sandburg.com/limited.htm
Robert Louis Stevenson, “From a Railway Carriage” (1st stanza)
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1841220
Good Online Poetry Resources
Poetry 180
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
Academy of American Poets
www.poets.org
Poetry Foundation
www.poetryfoundation.org