Contents of original 101 famous poems

The Builders — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Opportunity — Edward R. Sill
Out to Old Aunt Mary’s — James Whitcomb Riley
Each and All — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred Tennyson
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes — Francis William Bourdillon
The House by the Side of a Road — Sam Walter Foss
I Have a Rendezvous with Death — Alan Seeger
In Flanders Fields — John McCrae
Moonlight — William Shakespeare
O Captain! My Captain! — Walt Whitman
The Chambered Nautilus — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Christmas Carol — Phillips Brooks
Little Boy Blue — Eugene Field
The Daffodils — William Wordsworth
The Vision of Sir Launfal — James Russell Lowell
Ode to the West Wind — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Snow-Storm — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ode to a Skylark — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hiawatha’s Childhood — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Character of the Happy Warrior — William Wordsworth
Ann Rutledge — Edgar Lee Masters
Grass — Carl Sandburg
Not in Vain — Emily Dickinson
Sheridan’s Ride — Thomas Buchanan Read
The Present Crisis — James Russell Lowell
Be Strong! — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Columbus — Joaquin Miller
Trees — Joyce Kilmer
The Spires of Oxford — Winifred Mary Letts
Recessional — Rudyard Kipling
The Cloud — Percy Bysshe Shelley
How Did You Die? — Edmund Vance Cooke
Wolsey’s Farewell to His Greatness — John Fletcher
The Blessed Damozel — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
America for Me — Henry Van Dyke
Requiem — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Gods of the Copybook Headings — Rudyard Kipling
Mercy — William Shakespeare
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight — Vachel Lindsay
The Man with the Hoe — Edwin Markham
The Duel — Eugene Field
Song of the Chattahoochee — Sidney Lanier
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood — William Wordsworth
The World Is Too Much with Us — William Wordsworth
Epistle to a Young Friend — Robert Burns
The Deacon’s Masterpiece or, the Wonderful “One-hoss Shay”: A Logical Story — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Building of the Ship — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Solitude — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Knee-deep in June — James Whitcomb Riley
Opportunity — John James Ingalls
Waiting — John Burroughs
Paul Revere’s Ride — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou may’st in me behold — William Shakespeare
Plant a tree — Lucy Larcom
Abou Ben Adhem — James Henry Leigh Hunt
The Bells — Edgar Allan Poe
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray
Cuddle Doon — Alexander Anderson
Sonnet: On His Blindness — John Milton
Thanatopsis — William Cullen Bryant
The Children’s Hour — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Invictus — William Ernest Henley
Sea-Fever — John Masefield
Horatius — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Each in His Own Tongue — William Herbert Carruth
The Eternal Goodness — John Greenleaf Whittier
Summum Bonum — Robert Browning
If — Rudyard Kipling
The Day Is Done — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love of Country — Walter Scott
Nobility — Alice Cary
The Minuet — Mary Mapes Dodge
Childe Harold’s Farewell to England — George Gordon Byron
God Save the Flag! — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Raven — Edgar Allan Poe
The Highwayman — Alfred Noyes
A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For A’ That and A’ That — Robert Burns
Jest ’fore Christmas — Eugene Field
Gradatim — Josiah Gilbert Holland
The Barefoot Boy — John Greenleaf Whittier
Polonius’s Advice to Laertes — William Shakespeare
Hats Off—The Flag Goes By — Henry Holcomb Bennett
“The Things that Are More Excellent” — William Watson
Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep a-Goin’! — Frank Lebby Stanton
Life-Sculpture — William Croswell Doane
“O May I Join the Choir Invisible” — George Eliot
Marmion and Douglas — Walter Scott
Ode on a Grecian Urn — John Keats
The Heart of the Tree — Henry Cuyler Bunner
Crossing the Bar — Alfred Tennyson
“To be or not to be, that is the question” — William Shakespeare
She Was a Phantom of Delight — William Wordsworth
The Spider and the Fly — Mary Howitt
Maud Muller — John Greenleaf Whittier
Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas — Henry Livingston, Jr.
Home—Edgar A. Guest
My Kate — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lincoln, the Man of the People — Edwin Markham
On the Building of Springfield — Vachel Lindsay
Mending Wall — Robert Frost
The Fool’s Prayer — Edward R. Sill
To a Waterfowl — William Cullen Bryant
I Shall not Pass This Way Again — Eva Rose York
Apostrophe to the Ocean — George Gordon Byron
Renascence — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Epilogue to Asolando — Robert Browning
L’Envoi — Rudyard Kipling