| Title | Author | Year |
|---|
| Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of M... | John Dryden | 1697 |
| Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale, ... | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1478 |
| Rouen, Place de la Pucelle | Maria White Lowell | 1853 |
| The Aeneid, Book I, [Arms and the man... | Virgil | 1907 |
| The Art of Poetry [excerpt] | Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | 1674 |
| The Banner of the Jew | Emma Lazarus | 1888 |
| Theodore and Honoria | Giovanni Boccaccio | 1700 |
| Ulysses | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 1842 |
| Washington's Monument, February, 1885 | Walt Whitman | 1892 |