- Conrad Aiken, "Summer"
- Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
- Margaret Atwood, "It is dangerous to read newspapers"
- W.H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts"
- Samuel Beckett, "what would I do without this world faceless incurious"
- John Betjeman, "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"
- Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish"
- William Blake, "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau"
- William Blake, "Proverbs of Hell" from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- Margaret Blum, "Three Double Dactyls"
- Emily Brontë, "Hope"
- Robert Browning, "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church"
- Robert Browning, "A Toccata of Galuppi's"
- George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Don Juan
- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Written After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos"
- Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"
- Billy Collins, "Musée des Beaux Arts Revisited"
- Hart Crane, "Chaplinesque"
- Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel"
- E.E. Cummings, "my father moved through dooms of love"
- C. Day Lewis, "Almost Human"
- Emily Dickinson, "The Bible is an antique Volume"
- Emily Dickinson, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers--"
- Emily Dickinson, "I like to see it lap the miles"
- Emily Dickinson, "The Soul has Bandaged moments"
- Emily Dickinson, "Tell the Truth but tell it slant"
- John Donne, from Holy Sonnets
- John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
- Ernest Dowson, "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae"
- John Dryden, "Prologue to The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island"
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We wear the mask"
- Richard Eberhart, "The Groundhog"
- T.S. Eliot, "Five-Finger Exercises"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snowstorm"
- William Empson, "Missing Dates"
- Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
- Robert Frost, "Spring Pools"
- Robert Graves, "The Cool Web"
- Robert Graves, "Warning to Children"
- Emily Grosholz, "Putting On the Ritz"
- Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain: Lines on the Loss of the Titanic"
- Thomas Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush"
- Thomas Hardy, "The Respectable Burgher on 'The Higher Criticism'"
- Anthony Hecht, "The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life"
- George Herbert, "The Collar"
- Robert Herrick, "The Night Piece, to Julia"
- Robert Herrick, "Upon Julia's Clothes"
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, "Manche freilich..."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child"
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection"
- A.E. Housman, "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now"
- A.E. Housman, "'Terence, this is stupid stuff'"
- Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B"
- Robinson Jeffers, "Hurt Hawks"
- Patrick Kavanagh, "Lecture Hall"
- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
- John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
- Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
- Stanley Kunitz, "The War Against the Trees"
- D.H. Lawrence, "Bavarian Gentians"
- D.H. Lawrence, "Snake"
- Vachel Lindsay, "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Chaucer"
- Richard Lovelace, "To Althea, From Prison"
- Archibald MacLeish, "You, Andrew Marvell"
- Louis MacNeice, "Snow"
- Andrew Marvell, "The Garden"
- Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
- Claude McKay, "America"
- Herman Melville, "Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)"
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Dirge Without Music"
- John Milton, from Paradise Lost
- John Milton, "When I consider how my light is spent"
- Marianne Moore, "Peter"
- Marianne Moore, "What Are Years?"
- Edwin Muir, "The Horses"
- Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
- William Plomer, "In the Snake Park"
- Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet--To Science"
- Alexander Pope, from The Dunciad
- Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
- Ezra Pound, "A Study in Aesthetics"
- John Crowe Ransom, "Here Lies a Lady"
- Kenneth Rexroth, "Proust's Madeleine"
- Laura Riding, "With the Face"
- Rainer Maria Rilke, from Sonnets to Orpheus
- Arthur Rimbaud, "Voyelles"
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, "New England"
- Theodore Roethke, "I Knew a Woman"
- Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio"
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Silent Noon" from The House of Life
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought)
- William Shakspeare, "When that I was and a little tiny boy"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark"
- Philip Sidney, "Ye goatherd gods, that love the grassy mountains"
- Christopher Smart, "From Jubilate Agno"
- Stevie Smith, "Was He Married?"
- Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar"
- Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West"
- Wallace Stevens, "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, from Atalanta in Calydon
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Sundew"
- Allen Tate, "Last Days of Alice"
- Edward Taylor, "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly"
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from The Princess ("Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white")
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Tithonus"
- Edward Thomas, "Lights Out"
- Edward Thomas, "The Path"
- Henry David Thoreau, "I am a parcel of vain strivings tied"
- Jean Toomer, "Georgia Dusk"
- Henry Vaughan, "The World"
- Paul Verlaine, "Art Poétique"
- Robert Penn Warren, "Bearded Oaks"
- Vernon Watkins, "Waterfalls"
- Walt Whitman, "To a Locomotive in Winter"
- Walt Whitman, "Vigil strange I kept on the field one night"
- Richard Wilbur, "The Death of a Toad"
- Richard Wilbur, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
- William Carlos Williams, "The Dance"
- William Carlos Williams, "Poem"
- William Carlos Williams, "The Yachts"
- Yvor Winters, "Time and the Garden"
- William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us; late and soon"
- Richard Wright, "Four Haiku"
- Thomas Wyatt, "They flee from me, that sometime did me seek"
- William Butler Yeats, "Among School Children"
- William Butler Yeats, "Lapis Lazuli"
- William Butler Yeats, "When you are old and gray and full of sleep"
- Zhang Zhen, "The Cat at My Friend's House"
- Louis Zukofsky, "Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers"
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