| Title | Author | Year |
|---|
| A Dream Within a Dream | Edgar Allan Poe | 1820 |
| A Musical | Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1913 |
| A Vision of Rest | Alexander Posey | 1910 |
| Dawns | Amy Lowell | 1921 |
| Elegy Before Death | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1921 |
| Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt] | Alexander Pope | 1734 |
| Fragment: Questions | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1902 |
| I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love | John Keats | 1819 |
| Invictus | William Ernest Henley | 1888 |
| Mariposa | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1921 |
| On Seeing the Elgin Marbles | John Keats | 1817 |
| Reflections Irregular | John Rollin Ridge | 1848 |
| Song of Old Time | Eliza Cook | 1840 |
| Thanksgiving | James Whitcomb Riley | 1900 |
| The Circle | Hazel Hall | 1921 |
| The Fisherman | W. B. Yeats | 1916 |
| The Passing of the Hours | Ella Higginson | 1898 |
| The Still Small Voice | John Rollin Ridge | 1851 |
| The Word | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 1906 |
| Water | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1867 |
| When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be | John Keats | 1848 |
| XLVIII. [Be still, my soul, be still] | A. E. Housman | 1896 |
| XXVIII [“Truth," said a traveller] | Stephen Crane | 1895 |
| [Here dead lie we because we did not ... | A. E. Housman | 1919 |
| [Immortal?... No,] | F. S. Flint | 1917 |