those which i can (obnoxiously) recite by heart:

• bread and music, conrad aiken
• clotilde, guillaume apollinaire
• let me put it this way, simon armitage
• funeral blues, w.h. auden
• poison tree, william blake
• the tyger, william blake
• oh yes, charles bukowski
• to the whore who took my poems, charles bukowski
• jabberwocky, lewis carrol
• the mouse's tale, lewis carrol
• maggie and milly and molly and may, e.e. cummings
• because i could not stop for death, emily dickinson
• death be not proud, john donne
• no man is an island, john donne
• acquainted with the night, robert frost
• fire and ice, robert frost
• do not stand at my grave and weep, mary e. frye
• when i was one-and-twenty, a. e. housman
• suicide's note, langston hughes
• trees, joyce kilmer
• this be the verse, philip larkin
• antigonish, william hughes mearns
• the invitation, oriah
• résumé, dorothy parker
• mad girl's love song, sylvia plath
• alone, edgar allan poe
• annabelle lee, edgar allan poe
• the raven, edgar allan poe
• the school song, j.k. rowling
• thief's warning, j.k. rowling
• s.p.t. to a.p.w.b.d. j.k. rowling
• the guest house, jelaluddin rumi
• her kind, anne sexton
• music when soft voices die, percy bysshe shelley
• ozymandias, percy bysshe shelley
• sonnet xviii, william shakespeare
• do not go gentle into that good night, dylan thomas
• the riddle of strider, j.r.r. tolkien
• we were emergencies, buddy wakefield
• go, lovely rose, edmund waller (awful poem)
• o captain! my captain! walt whitman
• the old astronomer to his pupil, sarah williams
• life story, tennessee williams
• the mermaid, w.b. yeats