Ann Kroeker started Mega Memory Month (henceforth known as MMM) last year, but I didn't hop on at the time. Since one of my aspirations is to memorizze scripture this year, I couldn't help but try my hand at it.
My theme verse for this year is Jeremiah 17: 7-8, but the whole verse is certainly something to be applied to my life so for the month, I am going to learn the
entire chapter of Jeremiah 17
Also, I hadn't considered this so I am copying the idea, I am going to memorize a poem for the month (who knows, maybe I will do it every month...poetry is easy) So for January I am going to learn I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
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That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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2 comments:
I'm delighted to join you in this month's MMM challenge--and I *love* this poem. I heard it for the first time about five years ago when I was listening to a professor's CD lecture on poetry. This was one of my favorites from the whole course! I figure if I all I do is just read it and try to say it every day for the rest of January, I'll get Stopping by Woods pretty well. I hope so. And I hope it's easy for you, too.
Thanks for dropping by my blog. Yeah, it was pretty awesome!
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