Blessing the boats / Lucille Clifton
Author to her book / Anne Bradstreet
When great dogs fight / Melvin B. Tolson
from To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare
Exile's letter / Rihaku (Li Po)
Untitled ("Not to sigh and to be tender") / Aphra Behn
In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound
Ode to enchanted light / Pablo Neruda
Life in a love / Robert Browning
Poet is served her papers / Lorna Dee Cervantes
Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
Night dances / Sylvia Plath
This is just to say / William Carlos Williams
Which recounts how fantasy contents itself with honorable love / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings
Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen
Untitled ("My life had stood-a loaded gun-") / Emily Dickinson
Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke
To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works / Phillis Wheatley
from Trilogy; the walls do not fall / H.D.
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
Mother to son / Langston Hughes
Easter wings / George Herbert
Road not taken / Robert Frost
Remembrance / Emily Bronte
Bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens
Woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Storytelling / Barbara Guest
Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick
Who has seen the wind? / Christina Georgina Rossetti
Travel / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Doubt of future foes / Elizabeth I
Tenebris / Angelina Weld Grimke
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Sonnet 43 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore
Poets to come / Walt Whitman.
