"Hope" is the Thing with Feathers / Emily Dickinson --
Invictus / William Ernest Henley --
Caged Bird / Maya Angelou --
may my heart always be open / E. E. Cummings --
Somewhere or Other / Christina Rossetti --
Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --
In a Station of the Metro / Ezra Pound --
When You Are Old / William Butler Yeats --
Juke Box Love Song / Langston Hughes --
Musée des Beaux Arts / W. H. Auden --
The Given Note / Seamus Heaney --
The Darkling Thrush / Thomas Hardy --
Choices / Tess Gallagher --
The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower / Dylan Thomas --
Buffalo Dusk / Carl Sandburg --
The World is too Much with Us / William Wordsworth --
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
There have Come Soft Rains / John Philip Johnson --
Birches / Robert Frost --
Spring and Fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Before the Battle / Siegfried Sassoon --
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe --
Because I Could Not Stop for Death / Emily Dickinson --
Conscientious Objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay.