T.+To+Kill+a+Mockingbird+Poetry+Recital

 [|Robert Frost] (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.  The Road Not Taken TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5  Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, 10  And both that morning equally lay <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In leaves no step had trodden black. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Oh, I kept the first for another day! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Yet knowing how way leads on to way, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I doubted if I should ever come back. 15 <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I shall be telling this with a sigh <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Somewhere ages and ages hence: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I took the one less traveled by, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">And that has made all the difference. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">_____________________________ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Still I Rise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You may write me down in history <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">With your bitter, twisted lies, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You may trod me in the very dirt <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">But still, like dust, I'll rise. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Does my sassiness upset you? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Why are you beset with gloom? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Pumping in my living room. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Just like moons and like suns, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">With the certainty of tides, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Just like hopes springing high, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Still I'll rise. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Did you want to see me broken? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bowed head and lowered eyes? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Shoulders falling down like teardrops. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Weakened by my soulful cries. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Does my haughtiness offend you? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Don't you take it awful hard <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Diggin' in my own back yard. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You may shoot me with your words, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You may cut me with your eyes, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You may kill me with your hatefulness, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">But still, like air, I'll rise. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Does my sexiness upset you? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Does it come as a surprise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">That I dance like I've got diamonds <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">At the meeting of my thighs? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Out of the huts of history's shame <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I rise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Up from a past that's rooted in pain <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I rise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Leaving behind nights of terror and fear <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I rise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I rise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I am the dream and the hope of the slave. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I rise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I rise <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">_________________________ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">MY PAPA'S WALTZ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">by [|Theodore Roethke] <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The whiskey on your breath <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Could make a small boy dizzy; <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> But I hung on like death: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Such waltzing was not easy. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> We romped until the pans <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Slid from the kitchen shelf; <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> My mother's countenance <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Could not unfrown itself. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> The hand that held my wrist <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Was battered on one knuckle; <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> At every step you missed <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> My right ear scraped a buckle. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> You beat time on my head <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> With a palm caked hard by dirt, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Then waltzed me off to bed <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Still clinging to your shirt. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">