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Position:Home>Performing Arts> Poetry to perform?Question: Poetry to perform?I am in a performance of literature class. I am being asked to pick a poem (about 12-14 lines) to memorize and perform. I am having trouble finding a good one. I want it to be entertaining...not too dark. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I don't know if this is entertaining enough for you but it is certainly a beautiful and moving poem, and easy to learn. HAD I the heavens?? embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) "He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven" |