Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"

Richard Wilbur's "A Dubious Night"

T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday"

Scott Cairns' "Possible Answers to Prayer"

Rudyard Kipling's "The Camel's Hump"

Langston Hughes' "Dreams"

Richard Henry Horne's "The Plough"

Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"

Gary Soto's "Oranges"

Maurice Manning's "A Plank from the Platform"

Wendell Berry's "Loving You Has Taught Me..."

W. H. Auden's "Night Mail"

Anne Brontë's "The North Wind"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" pt. 2

Zbigniew Herbert's "The Salt of the Earth"

Ted Kooser's "So This Is Nebraska"

Phyllis McGinley's "Lament for a Wavering Viewpoint"

John Keats' "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer"

Mary Oliver's "First Snow"

G. K. Chesterton's "Stilton and Milton"