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