| Title | Author | Year |
|---|
| A Psalm of Life | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1839 |
| Another Song [Are they shadows that w... | Samuel Daniel | 1610 |
| Barter | Sara Teasdale | 1917 |
| Days | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1912 |
| First Fig | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1920 |
| I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl | Emily Dickinson | 1890 |
| II. [Loveliest of trees, the cherry now] | A. E. Housman | 1896 |
| If— | Rudyard Kipling | 1910 |
| Live Blindly and Upon the Hour | Trumbull Stickney | 1917 |
| Mariposa | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1921 |
| Mask | Carl Sandburg | 1916 |
| My life closed twice before its close | Emily Dickinson | 1896 |
| My life has been the poem I would hav... | Henry David Thoreau | 1849 |
| O Me! O Life! | Walt Whitman | 1892 |
| O, Gather Me the Rose | William Ernest Henley | 1874 |
| Prayer at Sunrise | James Weldon Johnson | 1917 |
| Rosemary | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1921 |
| Song to Celia | Ben Jonson | 1616 |
| Sonnet VI. [Then let not winter's rag... | William Shakespeare | 1609 |
| Sonnet XV. [When I consider every thi... | William Shakespeare | 1609 |
| Thanatopsis | William Cullen Bryant | 1817 |
| The Penitent | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1920 |
| The Road Not Taken | Robert Frost | 1916 |
| Three Airs for the Beggar's Opera, Ai... | John Gay | 1728 |
| To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell | 1681 |
| To Rosa | Abraham Lincoln | 1858 |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | Robert Herrick | 1648 |
| Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Inc... | Ernest Dowson | 1900 |
| We live in deeds, not years; in thoug... | Philip James Bailey | 1884 |
| Weave in, My Hardy Life | Walt Whitman | 1892 |