Common Core State Standards Text Exemplars
Poems to integrate into your English Language Arts classroom.
BY The Editors
One of the key requirements of the Common Core State Standards for Reading is that all students must be able to comprehend texts of steadily increasing complexity as they progress through school. To better serve teachers who are looking for text exemplars, this collection brings together poems that have previously been listed in the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts Appendix.
As I was Going to St. Ives
Anonymous
Mix a Pancake
Christina Rossetti
Singing-Time
Rose Fyleman
The Fox's Foray
Anonymous
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear
The morns are meeker than they were - (32)
Emily Dickinson
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Christina Rossetti
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
The Jumblies
Edward Lear
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning
Your World
Georgia Douglas Johnson
A Bird, came down the Walk - (359)
Emily Dickinson
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost
Fog
Carl Sandburg
The Ecchoing Green
William Blake
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus
- Carl Sandburg
I like to see it lap the Miles - (383)
Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
- Gary Soto
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
The Song of Wandering Aengus
William Butler Yeats
I Am Offering this Poem
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
William Shakespeare
Song: Go and catch a falling star
John Donne
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Yet Do I Marvel
Countee Cullen
A Poem of Changgan
Li Bai
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne
Because I could not stop for Death – (479)
Emily Dickinson
- Rita Dove
Mending Wall
Robert Frost
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Phillis Wheatley Peters
- T. S. Eliot
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Ezra Pound
Song of Myself (1892 version)
Walt Whitman
Song VII (“My song has put off her adornments”)
Rabindranath Tagore