| Title | Author | Year |
|---|
| A Jelly-Fish | Marianne Moore | 1909 |
| At the Zoo | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1863 |
| Epitaph to a Dog | George Gordon Byron | 1808 |
| Flamingo Dreams | William Saphier | 1920 |
| Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Fro... | Wallace Stevens | 1922 |
| How Doth the Little Busy Bee | Isaac Watts | 1715 |
| Leda | H. D. | 1921 |
| Nonsense Alphabet | Edward Lear | 1846 |
| Song of the Paddlers [excerpt] | Herman Melville | 1849 |
| Spring | Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1918 |
| Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with th... | Jalal al-Din Rumi | 1898 |
| The Caterpillar | Robert Graves | 1918 |
| The Crocodile | Lewis Carroll | 1865 |
| The Duel | Eugene Field | 1894 |
| The Eagle | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 1851 |
| The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] | Eliza Lee Follen | 1832 |
| The Purple Cow | Gelett Burgess | 1895 |
| The Shark | Lord Alfred Douglas | 1897 |
| The Snail | William Cowper | 1731 |
| The Swan | John Gould Fletcher | 1921 |
| The Tiger | William Blake | 1794 |
| The Windhover | Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1918 |
| Untitled [There, by the crescent moon... | Shido | 1902 |
| Wilderness | Carl Sandburg | 1918 |
| from The Kitten and Falling Leaves | William Wordsworth | 1804 |