| Title | Author | Year |
|---|
| 19. [It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm ... | William Wordsworth | 1807 |
| A Prayer for my Daughter | W. B. Yeats | 1921 |
| By the Waters of Babylon | Emma Lazarus | 1887 |
| Christmas Carol | Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1922 |
| Continuities | Walt Whitman | 1892 |
| In the Still, Star-Lit Night | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | 1895 |
| Legendary Lights | Alter Abelson | 1917 |
| Sonnet CXLVI. [Poor soul, the centre ... | William Shakespeare | 1609 |
| Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot | Jalal al-Din Rumi | 1898 |
| Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with th... | Jalal al-Din Rumi | 1898 |
| The Hesperides | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 1832 |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [excerpt] | Edward Fitzgerald | 1859 |
| The Soul selects her own Society | Emily Dickinson | 1890 |
| Today We Make the Poet's Words Our Own | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1875 |
| XLVIII. [Be still, my soul, be still] | A. E. Housman | 1896 |