1. from “Magna est Veritas” by Coventry Patmore
2. from “On His Blindness” by John Milton
3. from “An Essay on Man” by Alexander Pope
4. “Man” by Sir John Davies
5. from Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare
6. from As You Like It, Act II, Scene 7, by William Shakespeare
7. from “To a Mistress Dying” and The Just Italian, Act V, Scene 1, by Sir William Davenant
8. from “The Society upon the Stanislaus” by Francis Bret Harte
9. from “Give All to Love” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. from “London, 1802,” Sonnet XIV of “Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty” by William Wordsworth
11. from the Bible’s “Gospel According to St. Mark,” 9:24
12. from “Departmental” by Robert Frost
13. from Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare
14. from an untitled poem by Walter Savage Landor
15. “The Phoenix” by Arthur Christopher Benson
16. as quoted by Rudyard Kipling from an anonymous song; see his “The Ship That Found Itself,” in The Day’s Work, Part I
17. from the text John Keats specified as an inscription for his tombstone
18. sentiment variously expressed by several writers
19. from “The Song of the Happy Shepherd” by William Butler Yeats
20. from “All Revelation” by Robert Frost
21. from Oenone’s song in “The Arrangement of Paris” by George Peele
22. as included in “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
23. from “Ode” by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
24. from “What Fifty Said” by Robert Frost
25. from “The Rainbow” by William Wordsworth
26. untitled poem by Robert Frost; later published with textual modifications
27. from “Comus” by John Milton
28. from “Lycidas” by John Milton
29. paraphrase from As You Like It, Act II, Scene 5, by William Shakespeare
30. from “Mis’ Smith” by Albert Bigelow Paine
31. from “Kitty Hawk” by Robert Frost; subsequently published with textual modification
32. from “There Are Roughly Zones” by Robert Frost
33. from “Two Tramps in Mud Time” by Robert Frost
34. from “Good-by and Keep Cold” by Robert Frost
35. from “The Strong Are Saying Nothing” by Robert Frost
36. quoted from talks given by Robert Frost during the previous year
37. from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1, by William Shakespeare
38. an untitled poem by Emily Dickinson (Johnson Edition, #536)
39. based on the Bible’s “Gospel According to St. Matthew,” 13, and “Gospel According to St. Mark,” 4
40. based on the Bible’s “Book of Revelation,” 21:8
41. from “Truth of Intercourse” in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
42. from an untitled poem by Emily Dickinson (Johnson Edition, #130)
43. from “Shine, Perishing Republic” by Robinson Jeffers
44. from “Song of a Thousand Years” by Henry Clay Work
45. based on Bible Psalm 19:14
46. from “The Deserter” (or “The Deserter’s Meditation”) by John Philpot Curran