All of the poems from the 2016 National Poetry Recitation Contest are listed below.

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7th and 8th Form poems

• "Assurance" by William Stafford

• "Forbearance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson

• "I am convinced" by Leonard Nimoy

• "Remember" by Christina Rossetti

• "Spider's Web" by E.B. White

• "The True Knowledge" by Oscar Wilde

• "We Alone" by Alice Walker

• "We'll Go No More A-Roving" by George Gordon, Lord Byron

 

9th through 12th Form poems

• "Aboard at a Ship's Helm" by Walt Whitman

• "As I Grew Older" by Langston Hughes

• "Clouds" by Sandra Cisneros

• "Coal" by Audre Lorde

• "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day" by Nikki Giovanni

• "Expect Nothing" by Alice Walker

• "Here In This Spring" by Dylan Thomas

• "How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• "I Am the Autumnal Sun" by Henry David Thoreau

• "I Sit and Think" by J.R.R Tolkien

• "If I Could Tell You" by W. H. Auden

• "Les Ballons" by Oscar Wilde

• "Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings" by Juan Felipe Herrera

• "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

• "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

• "Pretty Boy" by Rita Dove

• "Cat and the Moon" by W.B. Yeats

• "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake

• "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens

• "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

• "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams