James Matthew Wilson's "How many exiles in the monastery"

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath Poem III, 1994"

R. S. Thomas' "Suddenly"

R. S. Thomas' "The Fisherman"

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Root of the Boot"

Percy Bysshe Shelley's "England in 1819"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

W. S. Merwin's "To the Light of September"

Robert Frost's "Birches"

Charles and Mary Lamb's "Feigned Courage"

W. B. Yeats' "The Folly of Being Comforted"

Ted Kooser's "How to Foretell a Change in the Weather"

Beth Ann Fennelly's "Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding"

Linda Pastan's "The Dogwoods"

Lewis Carroll's "You Are Old, Father William"

T. S. Eliot's "Aunt Helen"

John Donne's "The Relic"

Wilfred Owen's "Elegy In April and September"

J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Last of the Old Gods"

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Fable"