For Homecoming day & night, from Poem A Day, Volume 2. 

from Ashboughs / by Gerard Manley Hopkins

They touch heaven, tabour on it; how their talons sweep
The smouldering enormous winter welkin!

For poetry, which sits on the shelves with feet dangling down, calling to us all year long, from poets.org.

from The Poet / by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The etymologist finds the deadest word to
have been once a brilliant picture. Language is
fossil poetry.

For beaches, cabbages, and kings, from poets.org.

from The Walrus and Carpenter / by Lewis Carroll

The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand:
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
‘If this were only cleared away,’
They said, ‘it would be grand!’

For a poetry lesson that ends badly, from Jabberwocky & Other Poems.

from Poeta Fit, non Nascitur / by Lewis Carroll

Don’t state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things
With a sort of mental squint

For wonder-land, from Jabberwocky & Other Poems. 

from How Doth… / by Lewis Carroll

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail

For big tests, such as the one I head to today, from Jabberwocky & Other Poems.

from Rules and Regulations / by Lewis Carroll

Learn well your grammar,
And never stammer,
Write well and neatly,
And sing most sweetly