Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Miniver Cheevy
A.E. Housman’s I to My Perils
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ As Kingfishers Catch Fire
A.E. Housman’s Here Dead Lie We
Archibald MacLeish’s You, Andrew Marvell
John Ciardi’s In Place of a Curse
e.e. cummings’ i am a little church
William Butler Yeats’ The Deep-Sworn Vow
Rudyard Kipling’s When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted
Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost’s Take Something Like a Star
George Seferis’ Mathios Pascalis Among the Roses
Pablo Neruda’s Sonetos de Amor
T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (one passage)
P. Vidal’s Provence
Samual Hazo’s The Best Place in America to be on Saturdays
Adonis’ A Woman and a Man
William Shakespeare’s “They that have power to hurt...”
Hart Crane’s The Hurricane
Wilfred Owen’s The Next War
Ezra Pound’s The Ballad of the Mulberry Road
Walter De La Mare’s Miss Tea and Peacock Pie
Constantine Cavafy’s Ithaca
Constantine Cavafy’s Waiting for the Barbarians
John Donne’s A Lecture Upon the Shadow
Anonymous/Robert Desnos’ An Irish Curse/Dove in the Arch
Miller Williams’ Folding His U.S.A. Today, He Makes His Point in the Blue Star Cafe
Willis Barnstone’s Greek Anthology selections
Marianne Moore’s What Are Years?
Robert Herrick’s Upon Julia’s Clothes
Samuel Hazo’s Stingers
John Balaban’s Viewing the New World Order
Randall Jarrell’s The X-Ray Waiting Room in the Hospital
Abraham Lincoln’s The Gettysburg Address
Bertolt Brecht’s History
Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s Two Poems
Czeslaw Milosz’s Rivers Grow Small
e.e. cummings’ next to of course god America I
Samuel Hazo’s Lost Swimmer
Archibald MacLeish’s Ars Poetica
A Japanese Child’s On Wetting the Bed
William Shakespeare’s My Love is Strengthened
Samual Hazo’s My Roosevelt Coupe
Emily Dickinson’s Tell All the Truth
William Matthews’ Translation from Martial
A.E. Housman’s When I Was One and Twenty
Samuel Hazo’s Jack O’Lantern
William Stafford’s Traveling Through the Dark
Walt Whitman’s Preface to Leaves of Grass
James Joyce’s I Hear an Army Charging
Jose Marti’s Verses
Randall Jarrell’s The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Edgar Lee Masters’ The Poems from Spoon River
Edgar Lee Masters’ One Poem from New Spoon River
Naomi Shihab Nye’s The Art of Disappearing
Yannis Ritsos’ Women
Antonio Machado’s Proverbs and Short Verses
Albert Camus’ The Sea Close By
Light Verse, Robert Frost, Robert Herrick, etc.
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Pied Beauty
Robinson Jeffers’ Skunks
Linda Pastan’s Emily Dickinson
Samuel Hazo’s The Most You Least Expect