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"

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

John Donne's "The Relic"

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Fable"

Geoffrey Hill's "Genesis"

Prince Hal's soliloquy from Henry IV, pt.1 ("herein will I imitate the sun")

Phineas Fletcher's "A Litany"

Richard Wilbur's "The Writer"

Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam..." 1-3

Kenn Nesbitt's "Our Teacher's Not a Zombie"

Donald Hall's "An Old Life"