Paul Revere's ride (1861) / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dirge : for one who fell in battle (1861) / Thomas William Parsons

Battle hymn of the republic (1862) / Julia Ward Howe

Barbara Frietchie (1863) / John Greenleaf Whittier

Road-hymn for the start (1899) / William Vaughn Moody

Robert Gould Shaw (1900) / Paul Laurence Dunbar

Rupert Brooke (1915) / Conrad Aiken

The valley of the shadow (1918) / Edward Arlington Robinson

Foretaste (1930) / Margaret Pond

Litany for dictatorships (1935) / Stephen Vincent Benét

Evening meal in the twentieth century (1939) / John Holmes

In Texas (1941) / May Sarton

Dark symphony (1941) / Melvin B. Tolson

Pacific lament (1946) / Charles Olson

Skyscraper canticle (1946) / Carl Sandburg

Frederick Douglass (1947) / Robert E. Hayden

For the union dead (1960) / Robert Lowell

One day (1963) / Jeanette Nichols

A good view from Flagstaff (1975) / Richard Hugo

Welcome to Hiroshima (1983) / Mary Jo Salter

The baseball players (1984) / Donald Hall

Sunday in the old republic (1987) / Derek Walcott

Powers of congress (1988) / Alice Fulton

Used (1989) / Rota Dove

Among children (1990) / Philip Levine

Darling (1995) / Naomi Shihab Nye

Jersey rain (2000) / Robert Pinsky

Martin Luther King Jr. mourns Trayvon Martin (2018) / Lauren K. Alleyne

The coal cellar (2021) / Nikki Giovanni

Benediction (2022) / Joshua Bennett

The wish (2023) / Dong Li

Nostrand and Lincoln (2023) / Janelle Tan

Sonnet (1857) / James Russell Lowell

A summer day (1862) / Celia Thaxter

Madrigal (1873) / Howard Glyndon (Laura Redden Searing)

The breakers (1893) / Charles Washington Coleman

Tiger-Lilies (1895) / Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper)

Birches (1915) / Robert Frost

Beauty is gathered like the rain on hills (1920) / Dorothy Leonard

Autumn evening (1934) / Jean Batchelor

Return (1939) / Josephine W. Johnson

Northeast coast (1941) / Frances Frost

July mountain (1955) / Wallace Stevens

A winter ship (1960) / Sylvia Plath

Fighting for roses (1963) / Muriel Rukeyser

January 25th (1965) / Maxine Kumin

For the last wolverine (1966) / James Dickey

Early December in Croton-on-Hudson (1967) / Louise Glück

April (1977) / Charles Wright

On the disadvantages of central heating (1979) / Amy Clampitt

Night blooming cereus (1981) / Katha Pollitt

Chord (1987) / W. S. Merwin

The last night in Mithymna (1989) / Linda Gregg

In answer to Amy's question what's a pickerel (1990) / Stanley Plumly

Song (1990) / Rosanna Warren

What I did on a rainy day (1993) / May Swenson

Mockingbirds (1994) / Mary Oliver

Dooryard flower (1999) / Ellen Bryant Voigt

For the lichens (2011) / Jane Hirshfield

I stare at a cormorant (2021) / Tiana Clark

Hotel earth (2022) / James Longenbach

The origin revisited (2023) / Ada Limón

Two apricots (2024) / Ama Codjoe

Days (1857) / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bardic symbols (1860) / Walt Whitman

After the burial (1868) / James Russell Lowell

Flammantia mœnia mundi (1890) / Annie Fields

Prime (1921) / Amy Lowell

Come in (1941) / Robert Frost

Ideal landscape (1953) / Adrienne Rich

Circle of breath (1954) / William Stafford

Eleutheria (1956) / James Wright

Anxiety (1961) / A. K. Ramanujan

The lost pilot (1966) / James Tate

Last words (1967) / James Merrill

Girl and horse , 1928 (1970) / Margaret Atwood

The ghosts (1973) / Kathryn Ungerer

The name of the air (1974) / Philip Levine

Heroic simile (1976) / Robert Hass

Monarchs (1980) / Sharon Olds

Sudden journey (1982) / Tess Gallagher

A visitor (1984) / Mary Oliver

The wide and varied world (1985) / Ellen Bryant Voigt

Execution (1985) / Edward Hirsch

Late loving (1986) / Mona Van Duyn

The bad physician (1987) / Linda Gregerson

Emptiness (1993) / Kay Ryan

What the living do (1994) / Marie Howe

As from a quiver of arrows (1995) / Carl Phillips

Colostrum (2010) / Kevin Young

Articulation (2016) / Natasha Trethewey

Ars poetica with mother and dogs (2022) / Rio Cortez

There you are (2023) / Victoria Adukwei Bully.