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Dudley Randall’s “Booker T. and W.E.B.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “The Changing Light”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Knight’s Tomb”

Vernon Watkins’ “Camelot”

Lisel Mueller’s “When I am Asked”

Charles G. Eastman’s “The Yellow Corn”

Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking”

Tracy K. Smith’s “Einstein’s Mother”

Ted Kooser’s “Applesauce”

Emily Dickinson’s “A Thunderstorm”

Seamus Heaney’s “Storm on the Island”

William Shakespeare’s “As fast as thou shalt wane...” (Sonnet 11)

Li Bai’s “Taking Leave of a Friend”

“Sweeney Praises the Trees”

Helen Hunt Jackson’s “September”

Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Yellow Bird”

Edward Lear’s “How Pleasant To Know...”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”

George Herbert’s “The Pulley”

Marsden Hartley’s “Salutations to a Mouse”

Annie Dillard’s “How we spend our days”

Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Sestina”

Scott Cairns’ “Chemo With Coleridge”

Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poem III, 1994”

Wendell Berry’s “The Guest”

Wendell Berry’s “In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams”

Jane Austen’s “Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Grief”

Wendell Berry’s “Testament”

Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “The Last Leaf”

Francis Jammes’ “A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys”

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 71 (“No longer mourn for me when I am dead”)

John Milton’s Proem to Paradise Lost

Shel Silverstein’s “Sick”

David Wagoner’s “The Junior High School Band Concert”

William Blake's "The School Boy"

Bill Watterson's "The Yukon Song"

Thomas Dekker's "The Happy Heart"

John Donne's "The Good-Morrow"

Walter de la Mare's "Silver"

St. John of the Cross's "The Soul Aflame"

Angela Morgan's "Work: A Song of Triumph"

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Consolation"

Francis Thompson's "The Kingdom of God"

Emily Dickinson's "If I can stop one heart from breaking"

Oscar Wilde’s “Portia”

Robert Service's "The Law of the Yukon"

Wisława Szymborska's "In Praise of My Sister"

Ezra Pound's "Meditatio"

Thomas Lux’s “A Little Tooth”

Herman Melville's "In the Prison Pen"

Carl Sandburg's "Back Yard"

Robert Frost's "For Once, Then, Something"

Edgar Guest's "A Boy and His Dad "

Richard Armour's "Parental Pride"

William McGonagall's "Attempted Assassination of the Queen"

Prudentius' "The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"

Pablo Neruda's "Ode To The Artichoke"

Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"

Mary Oliver’s “No Matter What”

Czeslaw Milosz’s “Dedication”

Joyce Kilmer’s “The House with Nobody In It”

Bruce Kiskaddon's "When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall"

Curley Fletcher's "The Strawberry Roan"

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ “The Last Vegetable”

Paisley Rekdal's "Pear"

Blaze Koneski's "Peppers"

Rudyard Kipling's "The Lie"

A. F. Moritz's "On Distinction"

John Crowe Ransom's "Piazza Piece

Maurice Manning's "To the People of Sangamo County"

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "In Summer"

Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"

John Ciardi's "An Emeritus Addresses the School"

Matthew Zapruder's "Graduation Day"

Lisa Olstein's "Dear One Absent This Long While"

Ron Padgett's "Poem"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"

Christina Rossetti's "Spring"

Alexander Pope's "To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday"

Randall Jarrell's "Well Water"

R. S. Thomas' "This"

Ogden Nash's "Taboo to Boot"

Robert Burns' "John Barleycorn"

A. R. Ammons' "Poetics"

from Malcolm Guite's "Galahad and the Grail"

Norman Maccaig's "Interruption to a Journey"

James Joyce's "On the Beach at Fontana"

Edward Rowland Sill's "The Fool's Prayer"

Ellis Parker Butler's "The Final Tax"

R. S. Thomas' "The Bright Field"

Jonathan Henderson Brooks' "The Resurrection"

"Pangur Ban"

William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 99"

Nicholas Samaras' "The Second Death of Lazarus"

Sean Johnson's "How many beards gild the lapses of time"

Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's "One morn I left him in his bed"

Seamus Heaney's "Poem"

Rainer Maria Rilke's "Annunciation to Mary"

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "Dandelions"