Brain training

I use reciting poetry as an aid to sleep, and it actually works.
Here are some of them. I have lots of poems committed to memory from when I was younger.
To Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood.
Abou Ben Ahdem by Leigh Hunt.

I also know several verses of The Rime if the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Here are some of the verses I learnt.

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.

About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white

I think Gyles Brandreth has just published a book of poems to be learnt by heart. He asked his GC to each learn one and recite it to him as their Xmas present to him.
The poem I have learnt by heart was written by Leo Marks for Violette Szabo as her code poem when she parachuted I to France. I also have it on my study wall.
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.

For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.

I was recommended an ap which is good for the Brain. It is called Wordscapes and is based on anagrams.

The Latin version of " O Come all Ye Faithful ". I can still rattle it off from my schooldays at aged 11 in 1951, so hopefully I can continue to remember.

I have always loved one called The Green Eye of the Yellow God by J. Milton Hayes....

‘There’s a one eyed yellow idol
To the north of Kathmandu .....

It’s probably too long to memorise in its entirety but for some reason I have always loved it since school days.

It tells a story.

Great idea. I have a book, A Year of Reading Aloud. 52 poems one for each week of the year to be learnt off by heart. You might want to think about that. It does contain The Eagle by Tennyson. It's nice and short and you can really get into it! Text is online!

Here’s one I had to learn for detention nearly sixty years ago.

It’s never faded.

Like a small grey coffee pot
sits the squirrel. He is not
all he should be, kills by dozens
trees and eats his red-brown cousins.

The keeper on the other hand
who shot him is a Christian and
loves his enemies, which shows
the squirrel is not one of those.

No I didn’t I put it under Health. You can see I need help ?