Anonymous, Beowulf
Anonymous, “The limerick packs laughs anatomical”
Basho, “An old silent pond”
Katharine Lee Bates, “America the Beautiful”
William Blake, “The Tyger”
Robert Burns, “To a Mouse”; “A Red, Red Rose”
George Gordon, Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”
Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”; “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”; “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Billy Collins, “Sonnet”
E. E. Cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”; “Buffalo Bill ‘s”
Harry Dacre, “Daisy Bell”
Emily Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death”; “’Twas later when the summer went”
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Compensation”
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Stephen Foster, “Oh, Susanna”
Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night”; “The Road Not Taken”; “Birches”; “Mending Wall”
W. S. Gilbert, “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General”
Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land”
Thomas Hardy, “Birds at Winter Nightfall”
Seamus Heaney, “Bone Dreams”
Homer, The Iliad
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover”
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; “Mother to Son”; “The Weary Blues”
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Danusha Laméris, “Before”
Philip Larkin, “Church Going”
Edward Lear, “There Was an Old Man with a Beard”; “The Owl and the Pussycat”
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “The Long and Winding Road”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, “Hiawatha’s Departure”
John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”
W. S. Merwin, “Early One Morning”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sonnet 42 (“What lips my lips have kissed”)
Clement Clarke Moore, “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
Marianne Moore, “Poetry”; “The Fish”
John Newton, “Amazing Grace”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”; “The Raven”
Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”
Craig Raine, “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”
Christina Rossetti, “An Echo from Willow-Wood”
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 (“That time of year thou may’st in me behold”); Sonnet 30 (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”)
Paul Simon, “Graceland”
Wallace Stevens, “The Man on the Dump”
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Traditional, “Scarborough Fair”
Traditional, “The Yellow Rose of Texas”
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, XI (“Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore”); “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”; “O Captain! My Captain!”
William Carlos Williams, “The Great Figure”; “The Red Wheelbarrow”
William Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey”; “My Heart Leaps Up”
William Butler Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”; “Down by the Salley Gardens”