Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"

Robert Burns' "Epistle to a Young Friend"

Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility"

Robert Hass' "After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa"

John Keats' "To Autumn"

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone"

George Starbuck's "Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line"

Robert Frost's "My November Guest"

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Lemon Pie"

Seamus Heaney's "Follower"

Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall"

Ogden Nash's "A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty"

Wendell Berry's "Sabbath Poem III, 1994"

R. S. Thomas' "The Fisherman"

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

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

Robert Frost's "Birches"

Charles and Mary Lamb's "Feigned Courage"

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

Linda Pastan's "The Dogwoods"