Wasn't 'The Lake Isle' recited in unison by a thousand boy scouts? Now there's a thing! Not only Yeats hated it. Robert Graves was of the same way of thinking. (Dee you and your Bee piano and the Bee loud noises you make on it! ) I like it though. And this one, though I agree with Orwn that 'Cargoes' is better. And 'If'. Good poem that. As for 'Trees' I know only the first two lines and that's only because of Ogden Nash. so I wouldn't call it memorable.
The most memorable lines of poetry I know are:
Awake! For morning in the bowl of night
Hath flung the stone that puts the stars to flight
and that's because my mother used to say it to wake me in the morning. John Mills, the actor, picked another bit of Omar Khayyam which he said he had remembered all his life.
The moving finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on, nor all thy piety or wit
Can move it back to cancel one half line,
Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
Chockful of quotations, that poem.
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