Claude McKay
"Romance"



Robert Creeley
"The Rain"



Frank O'Hara
"Les Luths"



George Starbuck
"Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree"



Charles Tomlinson
"Snow Signss"



Grace Schulman
"Crossing the Square"



Thomas Hardy
"The Darkling Thrush"



John Ashbery
"Late Echo"



Billy Collins
"Design"



Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
"The Housewife"



Richard F. Hugo
"Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg"



Robinson Jeffers
"Carmel Point"



George Herbert
"Easter Wings"



E.E. Cummings
"Buffalo Bill's"



Jane Hirshfield
"The Woodpecker Keeps Returning"



Kay Ryan
"Leaving Spaces"



Kay Ryan
"Distance"

John Donne
"The Good Morrow"



Emily Dickinson
"Wild Nights! — Wild Nights!"



Richard Wilbur
"Year's End"



William Carlos Williams
"Blizzard"



Denise Levertov
"The Secret"



Geoffrey Hill
"Picture of a Nativity"



George Starbuck
"Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door"



Susan Stewart
"Let Me Tell You About My Marvelous God"



Robert Duncan
"Passage Over Water"



Naomi Shihab Nye
"Boy and Egg"



Frank O'Hara
"Why I am not a Painter"



George Oppen
"Time of the Missle"



Alicia Suskin Ostriker
"Boil"



John Keats
"When I Have Fears"



Kay Ryan
"Repetition"