| Poem | Poet |
| Huswifery | Taylor |
| To His Excllency, General Washington | Wheatley |
| Thanatopsis | Bryant |
| To a Waterfowl | Bryant |
| To Helen | Poe |
| Tamerlane and Other Poems | Poe |
| Concord Hymn | Emerson |
| The Rhodora | Emerson |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus | Longfellow |
| The Courtship of Miles Standish | Longfellow |
| Evangeline | Longfellow |
| a Psalm of Life | Longfellow |
| Teh Tide Rises, the Tide Falls | Longfellow |
| Old Irsonsides | Holmes |
| The Chambered Nautilius | Holmes |
| Snow-Bound | Whittier |
| A Winter Idyll | Whittier |
| I Hear America Singing | Whitman |
| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | Whitman |
| Song of Myself | Whitman |
| When Lilacs Last in the Door yard Bloomed | Whitman |
| Leaves of Grass | Whitman |
| This is my Letter to the World | Dickinson |
| I Never Saw a Moor-- | Dickinson |
| The Soul selects her own Society | Dickinson |
| Success is counted sweetest | Dickinson |
| I felt a Funeral in my Brain | Dickinson |
| Because I could not stop for Death | Dickinson |
| I heard a Fly buzz--when I died-- | Dickinson |
| Casey at the Bat | Thayer |
| the New Colosseus | Lazarus |
| Song of the Chattahoochee | Lanier |
| The Marshes of Glynn | Lanier |
| Spoon River Anthology | Masters |
| Richard Cory | Robinson |
| Miniver Cheevy | Robinson |
| Chicago Poems | Sandburg |
| The People, Yes | Sandburg |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Pufrock | Eliot |
| The Hollow Men | Eliot |
| John Brown's Body | Benet |
| Trees and Other Poems | Kilmer |
| The Cantos | Pound |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | Williams |
| Fire and Ice | Frost |
| Out, Out-- | Frost |
| The Death of the Hired man | Frost |
| Acquainted with the Night | Frost |
| The Unknown Citizen | Auden |
| Daddy | Plath |
| Ariel | Plath |
| The Collossus | Plath |
| Patterns | Lowell |
| Renascence and Other Poems | Millay |
| A Few Figs from Thistles | Millay |
| The Harp Weaver and Other Poems | Millay |
| anyone lived in a pretty how town | cummings |
| The Dream Keeper | Hughes |
| The Negro Speaks | Hughes |
