ONE HUNDRED POEMS AND PASSAGES
I have blogged frequently {1, 2, 3, 4} about the memory system I discovered years ago and have used since with great pleasure. I have always enjoyed committing things to memory, but this system has made memorizing longer passages a sustainable practice. One of my hundred goals is to learn a hundred passages of Scripture and poetry. You can see the progress I’ve made by comparing the lists in my previous blog posts with this current tally {of only Scripture and poetry}, where I’ll continue to record the passages I learn.
1.Job 28:12-28
2.Psalm 1
3.Psalm 15
4.Psalm 23
5.Psalm 84
6.Psalm 100
7.Psalm 113
8.Psalm 121
9.Psalm 127
10.Psalm 133
11.Psalm 139
12.Isaiah 12
13.Isaiah 55
14.Isaiah 58
15.Habakkuk 3:17-19
16.Mark 4:26-29
17.Luke 8:16-19
18.Luke 15:4-7
19.John 1
20.John 15
21.I Corinthians 13
22.Revelations 12
23.‘Addressed to a Young Lady,’ W. Cowper
24.‘The Bells,’ Edgar Allan Poe
25.‘Block City,’ Robert Lewis Stevenson
26.‘The Cloud,’ Percy Byssche Shelley
27.‘The Elixer,’ George Herbert
28.‘The Philosopher’s Garden,’ J. Oxenham
29.‘Prologue’ from Evangeline, H. Longfellow
30.‘The Quality of Mercy,’ Shakespeare
31.‘The Rhodora,’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
32.‘Sweet and Low,’ Alfred Lord Tennyson
33.‘The Swing,’ Robert Lewis Stevenson
34.‘To the Skylark,’ William Wordsworth
35.‘To a Waterfowl,’ William Cullen Bryant
36.‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,’ Walt Whitman
37.‘Work,’ Henry van Dyke
• My memory box is an extension of my brain. •
January 10, 2014