Akhmatova, Anna The Sentence

Ashbery, John The Improvement

Auden, W.H. Musée des Beaux Arts

Bishop, Elizabeth At the Fishhouses

Bishop, Elizabeth One Art

Blok, Aleksandr The Night, the Street, the Streetlamp...

Boland, Eavan The Emigrant Irish

Bolina, Jaswinder Make Believe

Brooks, Gwendolyn We Real Cool

Burgos, Julia de Ay, Ay, Ay, de la Grifa Negra

Crane, Hart At Melville's Tomb

Cullen, Countee Yet Do I Marvel

Dickinson, Emily #288 (I'm Nobody! Who are You?")

Drayton, Michael Since There's No Help

Dunbar, Paul Laurence The Party

Emerson, Ralph Waldo Concord Hymn

Frost, Robert For Once, Then, Something

Frost, Robert "OUT OUT--"

Frost, Robert Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Glück, Louise Lamentations

Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann (tr. Robert Bly) From the Holy Longing

Harjo, Joy Fishing

Heaney, Seamus Death of a Naturalist

Manley Hopkins, Gerard God's Grandeur

Housman, A.E. Diffugere Nives

Hughes, Langston Merry Go Round

Hughes, Langston Minstrel Man

Jones, Evan The Song of the Banana Man

Komunyakaa, Yusef Facing It

Kunitz, Stanley Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation

Levertov, Denise Settling

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth A Psalm of Life

Machado, Antonio Caminante, No Hay Camino / Traveler, There is no Road

Marvell, Andrew To His Coy Mistress

Milton, John From Lycidas

Mistral, Gabriela Piececitos

Nemerov, Howard The Makers

O'Hara, Frank POEM

Neruda, Pablo Soneto XVII / Sonnet XVII

Sexton, Anne Said the Poet to the Analyst

Parker, Pat Let Me Come to You Naked

Plath, Sylvia Nick and the Candlestick

Plath, Sylvia Polly's Tree

Li Po On a Quiet Night

Ritsos, Yannis Our Land

Roethke, Theodore My Papa's Waltz

Roethke, Theodore The Sloth

Roethke, Theodore The Waking

Shakespeare, William Sonnet 29

Stevens, Wallace The Idea of Order at Key West

Stevens, Wallace The Snow Man

Stevenson, Robert Louis Block City

Szymborska, Wisława Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition

Tagore, Rabindranath From Gitanjali

Tate, James The Lost Pilot

Thayer, Lawrence Ernest Casey at the Bat

Walker, Margaret For My People

Whitman, Walt from Song of Myself

Whitman, Walt from Song of the Open Road

Whitman, Walt O Captain! My Captain!

Yeats, William Butler Politics

Yeats, William Butler When You Are Old

Yoshitada, Sone No (tr. Kenneth Rexroth) Untitled Tanka ["The Lower Leaves of the Trees"]