Plz help me find a poem to memorize for school?

Question

I am 13 years old and in 7th grade

i need a 2min. poem to memorize for school

plz I want something appropriate

mabe something about friendship would be nice...

and plz help i am urgent

Answer 1

I like Langston Hughes poems

Answer 2

How about this

Dream-Land

by Edgar Allan Poe

BY a route obscure and lonely,

Haunted by ill angels only,

Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

On a black throne reigns upright,

I have reached these lands but newly

From an ultimate dim Thule -

From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,

Out of SPACE - out of TIME.

Bottomless vales and boundless floods,

And chasms, and caves, and Titian woods,

With forms that no man can discover

For the dews that drip all over;

Mountains toppling evermore

Into seas without a shore;

Seas that restlessly aspire,

Surging, unto skies of fire;

Lakes that endlessly outspread

Their lone waters - lone and dead, -

Their still waters - still and chilly

With the snows of the lolling lily.

By the lakes that thus outspread

Their lone waters, lone and dead, -

Their sad waters, sad and chilly

With the snows of the lolling lily, -

By the mountains - near the river

Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever, -

By the grey woods, - by the swamp

Where the toad and the newt encamp, -

By the dismal tarns and pools

Where dwell the Ghouls, -

By each spot the most unholy -

In each nook most melancholy, -

There the traveller meets aghast

Sheeted Memories of the Past -

Shrouded forms that start and sigh

As they pass the wanderer by -

White-robed forms of friends long given,

In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

For the heart whose woes are legion

'Tis a peaceful, soothing region -

For the spirit that walks in shadow

'Tis - oh 'tis an Eldorado!

But the traveller, travelling through it,

May not - dare not openly view it;

Never its mysteries are exposed

To the weak human eye unclosed;

So wills its King, who hath forbid

The uplifting of the fringed lid;

And thus the sad Soul that here passes

Beholds it but through darkened glasses.

By a route obscure and lonely,

Haunted by ill angels only,

Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

On a black throne reigns upright,

I have wandered home but newly

From this ultimate dim Thule.

1844.

Edgar Allan Poe's poem: Dream-Land (from the collection of Poems of Manhood)

Answer 3

Lullaby  

by W. H. Auden

Lay your sleeping head, my love,

Human on my faithless arm;

Time and fevers burn away

Individual beauty from

Thoughtful children, and the grave

Proves the child ephemeral:

But in my arms till break of day

Let the living creature lie,

Mortal, guilty, but to me

The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds:

To lovers as they lie upon

Her tolerant enchanted slope

In their ordinary swoon,

Grave the vision Venus sends

Of supernatural sympathy,

Universal love and hope;

While an abstract insight wakes

Among the glaciers and the rocks

The hermit's carnal ecstasy.

Certainty, fidelity

On the stroke of midnight pass

Like vibrations of a bell

And fashionable madmen raise

Their pedantic boring cry:

Every farthing of the cost,

All the dreaded cards foretell,

Shall be paid, but from this night

Not a whisper, not a thought,

Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Beauty, midnight, vision dies:

Let the winds of dawn that blow

Softly round your dreaming head

Such a day of welcome show

Eye and knocking heart may bless,

Find our mortal world enough;

Noons of dryness find you fed

By the involuntary powers,

Nights of insult let you pass

Watched by every human love.

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