| Title | Author | Year |
|---|
| 4. [My heart leaps up when I behold] | William Wordsworth | 1807 |
| A Prayer for my Daughter | W. B. Yeats | 1921 |
| A Vision of Rest | Alexander Posey | 1910 |
| Age and Death | Emma Lazarus | 1888 |
| At the Last | Witter Bynner | 1917 |
| August | Helen Hunt Jackson | 1886 |
| Beyond the Years | Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1913 |
| El Dorado | Edgar Allan Poe | 1849 |
| Gerontion | T. S. Eliot | 1920 |
| If— | Rudyard Kipling | 1910 |
| Imagery | Archibald MacLeish | 1917 |
| Leisure | Amy Lowell | 1912 |
| Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tint... | William Wordsworth | 1798 |
| Moonlight | Sara Teasdale | 1920 |
| My Lost Youth | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1855 |
| My Tenant | Philip M. Raskin | 1917 |
| October-November | Hart Crane | 1918 |
| Ode on Intimations of Immortality fro... | William Wordsworth | 1807 |
| Reflections Irregular | John Rollin Ridge | 1848 |
| Rock Me to Sleep | Elizabeth Akers Allen | 1859 |
| Sonnet CXLVI. [Poor soul, the centre ... | William Shakespeare | 1609 |
| Sonnet CXXVI. [O thou, my lovely boy,... | William Shakespeare | 1609 |
| Sonnet LX. [Like as the waves make to... | William Shakespeare | 1609 |
| The Everlasting Voices | W. B. Yeats | 1899 |
| The Expiration | John Donne | 1896 |
| The Human Seasons | John Keats | 1819 |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | T. S. Eliot | 1917 |
| The Passing of the Hours | Ella Higginson | 1898 |
| The Still Small Voice | John Rollin Ridge | 1851 |
| The Word | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 1906 |
| The Young Man's Song | W. B. Yeats | 1916 |
| To Chloe: Who for his sake wished her... | William Cartwright | 1651 |
| To Earthward | Robert Frost | 1916 |
| To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell | 1681 |
| To Think of Time | Walt Whitman | 1892 |
| To a Young Girl at a Window | Margaret Widdemer | 1918 |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | Robert Herrick | 1648 |
| When You Are Old | W. B. Yeats | 1919 |