Includes poems by Tennyson, Shakespeare, Wilfred Owen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, William Carlos Williams, A.E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Mari Evans, George Gascoigne, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, Henry Reed, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Browning, Richard Wilbur, Adrienne Rich, Robert Hayden, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Frances Cornford, Robert Francis, George Herbert, Thomas Campion, Andrew Marvell, Dorothy Lee Richardson, William Blake, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Herrick, Rupert Brooke, Alastair Reid, Alan Dugan, Christina Rossetti, Countee Cullen, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Frederick Nims, Sir John Harrington, Donald W. Baker, W.H. Auden, M. Carl Holman, e.e. cummings, John Milton, Keith Jennison, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Sara Teasdale, William Cullen Bryant, W.H. Davies, Michael Drayton, John Wakeman, Ogden Nash, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, John Crowe Ransom, Ralph Pomeroy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Stafford, Walt Whitman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ted Hughes, James Joyce, Carolyn Wells, Martin Bristow, David McCord, Dylan Thomas, Basho, Martha Collins, Randolph Stow, Maxine Kumin, William Burford, Joan Aleshire, A.R. Ammons, D.C. Berry, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Keith Douglas, Carolyn Forch茅, Isabella Gardner, Christopher Gilbert, Randall Jarrell, Ellen Kay, Galway Kinnell, Etheridge Knight, George MacBeth, Naomi Long Madgett, Cleopatra Mathis, Marianne Moore, Ogden Nash, Howard Nemerov, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, P.K. Page, Linda Pastan, Dudley Randall, Alberto Rios, Theodore Roethke, Gary Soto, Wallace Stevens, May Swenson, Jonathan Swift, John Updike, David Wagoner, Derek Walcott, Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Robert Penn Warren, Nancy Willard, and Miller Williams.