America : America, the beautiful / Katherine Lee Bates --
For John F. Kennedy his inauguration / Robert Frost --
The Gift outright / Robert Frost --
Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
I hear America singing / Walt Whitman --
Let America be America again / Langston Hughes --
Brown river, smile / Jean Toomer.
First poems : First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
At the ancient pond / Basho --
How reluctantly / Basho --
The land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Bed in summer / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Teddy bear's picnic / Jimmy Kennedy --
Three ponies / Arthur Guiterman --
The yak / Theodore Roethke --
Grizzly bear / Mary Austin --
The elephant / Hilaire Belloc --
The little turtle / Vachel Lindsay --
Dogs and weather / Winifred Welles --
Little trotty wagtail / John Clare --
The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear --
The crocodile / Lewis Carroll --
Fireflies in the garden / Robert Frost --
The Rose Family / Robert Frost --
Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti --
Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc --
Sherwood / Alfred Noyes --
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe --
Some keep the Sabbath going to church / Emily Dickinson --
Hope is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson --
Mother to son / Langston Hughes --
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams --
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore.
Adventure : Skye boat song --
Cargoes / John Masefield --
Sea-fever / John Masefield --
Hunting-song of the Seeonee pack / Rudyard Kipling --
Tableau / Countee Cullen --
Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes --
The road not taken / Robert Frost --
Richard III, I, i, 1-13 / William Shakespeare --
Henry V, IV, iii, 40-67 (St. Crispin's Day speech) / William Shakespeare --
The Isles of Greece / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Ulysses / Alfred Lord Tennyson --
Ithaca / Constantine P. Cavafy.
Escape : The flowers / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Behind stowe / Elizabeth Bishop --
In just / E.E. Cummings --
The pasture / Robert Frost --
Portrait by a neighbour / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats --
The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats --
The odyssey, book IX / Homer --
The tempest, V, i, 104-110 (Ariel's song) / William Shakespeare --
I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson --
These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson --
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost --
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
The dawn / William Butler Yeats --
Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats --
Of mere being / Wallace Stevens.
Romance and love : Song of Solomon 2:8-16 --
Paradise lost, book IV, 639-658 / John Milton --
Romeo and Juliet, III, ii, 17-31 / William Shakespeare --
Sonnet XVIII / William Shakespeare --
Sonnet XXIX / William Shakespeare --
Sonnet CXVI / William Shakespeare --
The bargain / Sir Philip Sidney --
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe --
Her reply / Sir Walter Raleigh --
She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Dr. Faustus, scene XIII / Christopher Marlowe --
The hill / Rupert Brooke --
The vase of perfume / Chang Wu-chien --
When a beggar beholds you... / Anonymous --
Somewhere I have never travelled, glady beyond / E.E. Cummings --
For C.K. at his christening / Daniel Lawrence Kelleher --
A prayer in spring / Robert Frost --
Reflection : Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 --
Prayer for peace / St. Francis of Assisi --
Sonnet on his blindness / John Milton --
Death, be not proud / John Donne --
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
His pilgrimage / Sir Walter Raleigh --
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats --
Antigone, ode I / Sophocles --
Agamemnon, Act I / Aeschylus --
Olympian ode II / Pindar --
Magpies in Picardy / T.P. Cameron Wilson --
Aftermath / Siegfried Sassoon --
The second coming / William Butler Yeats --
Choose something like a star / Robert Frost --
One art / Elizabeth Bishop --
The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes --
Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost --
The truly great / Stephen Spender --
For a poet / Countee Cullen --
He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats --
In her own words : Essay / Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis --
Sea joy / Jacqueline Bouvier --
Thoughts / Jacqueline Bouvier --
Meanwhile in Massachusetts / Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.