What poem should i read for my class?

I like something from Oscar Wilde. Oscar is a favorite, and not too many people go for his poetry when looking for a recital.

Heres a good one, but there are others.

THE HARLOT'S HOUSE

by: Oscar Wilde

We caught the tread of dancing feet,

We loitered down the moonlit street,

And stopped beneath the harlot's house.

Inside, above the din and fray,

We heard the loud musicians play

The "Treues Liebes Herz" of Strauss.

Like strange mechanical grotesques,

Making fantastic arabesques,

The shadows raced across the blind.

We watched the ghostly dancers spin

To sound of horn and violin,

Like black leaves wheeling in the wind.

Like wire-pulled automatons,

Slim silhouetted skeletons

Went sidling through the slow quadrille.

They took each other by the hand,

And danced a stately saraband;

Their laughter echoed thin and shrill.

Sometimes a clockwork puppet pressed

A phantom lover to her breast,

Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.

Sometimes a horrible marionette

Came out, and smoked its cigarette

Upon the steps like a live thing.

Then, turning to my love, I said,

"The dead are dancing with the dead,

The dust is whirling with the dust."

But she--she heard the violin,

And left my side, and entered in:

Love passed into the house of lust.

Then suddenly the tune went false,

The dancers wearied of the waltz,

The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.

And down the long and silent street,

The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,

Crept like a frightened girl.

'The Harlot's House' was originally published in The Dramatic Review (April, 1885).

right here's a classic one, that is referred to as "the line no longer Taken" by ability of Robert Frost :) that is one in all my all-time favorites! 2 roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry i could no longer return and forth the two And be one traveller, long I stood And regarded down one so some distance as i ought to To the place it bent contained in the undergrowth. Then took the different, as only as honest, And having possibly the greater advantageous declare, simply by fact it grew to become into grassy and needed placed on; however as for that the passing there Had worn them particularly related to an identical. And the two that morning the two lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I saved the 1st for yet another day! yet understanding how way leads directly to way, I doubted if I might desire to ever come again. I would be telling this with a sigh someplace a while and a while subsequently: 2 roads diverged in a wood, and that i-- I took the only much less traveled by ability of, And that has made each and all the version. in case you prefer something smaller, What approximately something from Shel Silverstein? that is precisely 8 lines :P How to no longer Dry the Dishes by ability of Shel Silverstein in case you may desire to dry the dishes (Such an undesirable uninteresting chore) in case you may desire to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the shop) in case you may desire to dry the dishes and you drop one on the floor in keeping with probability they gained't permit you Dry the dishes anymore good success! :)

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. Most of what Poe writes is typically serious and dark.

T.S. Eliot would go over well. I'm fond of his poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" which can be found here:

http://www.poetry-archive.com/e/rhapsody_on_a_wind...

A few other poems by T.S. Eliot are listed at this site:

http://www.bartleby.com/199/