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A

 Cecil Adams
  •  Schrödinger’s Cat: The Straight Dope 
    • Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960)
  •  It Was A Famous Victory 
  •  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 
  •  A Psalm of Labouring Life 
  •  Recuerdo 
  •  Song of Synthetic Virility 
    • Arthur St John Adcock
  •  The Divine Tragedy 
    • Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
  •  Bread and Music 
    • Anna Jean Allen
  •  Breakfast 
    • Hervey Allen
  •  Dead Men: To a Metaphysician 
    • Bill Anderson
  •  As Much As I Can Stand 
    • John Atherton
  •  Threes 
    • W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
  •  August 1968 
  •  Conspicuous Courage 
  •  Foxtrot From a Play 
  •  Funeral Blues 
  •  The More Loving One 
  •  O What Is That Sound? 
  •  The Secret Is Out 
  •  Musee des Beaux Arts 

    • B

    		 Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
  •  America the Beautiful 
    • James Beattie (1735-1803)
  •  Law 
    • Michael Bell
  •  Our Silence 
    • Marie Bellet
  •  Don’t You Think I Count? 
    • Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
  •  The Catholic Sun 
  •  Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably 
  •  George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions 
    • Ivan Berger
  •  Commuter Flight 
    • John Betjeman
  •  The Lift Man 
    • George Bilgere
  •  Bridal Shower 
    • Laurence Binyon
  •  How to Make a Memory 
    • Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
  •  One Art 
    • William Blake (1757-1827)
  •  A Poison Tree 
    • Michael Blumenthal
  •  Light, at Thirty-Two 
    • Stirling Bowen
  •  Cages 
    • Ray Bradbury
  •  Remembrance 
    • Joseph Brodsky
  •  For Schoolchildren 
    • Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
  •  Grantchester, ah Grantchester! 
  •  Heaven 
    • Gwendolyn Brooks
  •  The Mother 
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  •  Sonnet #43 
    • Robert Browning (1812-1889)
  •  The Pied Piper of Hamelin 
    • Amelia Josephine Burr
  •  Typhoon 
    • Mike Buscemi
  •  The Average Child 
    • George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
  •  So, We’ll Go No More a-Roving 

    • C

    		 Scott Cairns
  •  The Spiteful Jesus 
    • Archie Campbell
  •  Trouble in the Amen Corner 
    • Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898)
  •  Hiawatha’s Photographing 
    • William Herbert Carruth
  •  Each in His Own Tongue 
  •  Ghosts of Dreams 
    • Charles Edward Carryl
  •  A Nautical Ballad 
    • Guy Wetmore Carryl
  •  The Domineering Eagle and the Inventive Bratling 
  •  The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet 
  •  How Jack Found that Beans May Go Back on a Chap 
  •  The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven 
    • Jimmy Carter
  •  A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, And Why 
    • Johnny Cash
  •  Shrimpin’ Sailin’ 
    • G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
  •  Elegy in a Country Churchyard 
    • John Ciardi
  •  Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo 
    • Will D. Cobb
  •  Waltz Me Around Again, Willie 
    • Billy Collins
  •  Some Days 
    • Martin Cooper
  •  The Biplane Evermore 
    • Wendy Cope
  •  A Reading 
    • Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
  •  The Ball of Gold 
  •  I Saw a Man Pursuing 
  •  Many Workmen 
    • Jim Croce (1943-1973)
  •  Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues 
    • Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
  •  Motto 
    • Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
  •  Incident 
    • e. e. cummings (1894-1962)
  •  maggie and milly and molly and may 
  •  “next to of course god america i 

    • D

    		 Lt. Cmdr. Data
  •  Ode to Spot 
    • William Henry Davies
  •  Leisure 
    • Billy Dean
  •  Billy the Kid 
    • Jimmy Dean (1928-2010)
  •  Big Bad John 
  •  Little Black Book 
    • Philip F. Deaver
  •  The Worriers’ Guild 
    • Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
  •  Bones 
  •  The Listeners 
  •  A Song of Enchantment 
    • Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston
  •  The Ill-Assorted Guards 
  •  People Should Listen to Me 
    • Neil Diamond
  •  Brooklyn Roads 
    • Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  •  A Book 
  •  A Narrow Fellow in the Grass 
  •  I Never Saw a Moor 
  •  Success 
    • Austin Dobson
  •  On the Future of Poetry 
    • Natalie Dorsch
  •  Just Because 
    • Will Allen Dromgoole
  •  The Bridge Builder 
    • John Dryden (1631-1700)
  •  Happy the Man 

    • F

    		 Eleanor Farjeon
  •  Jenny White and Johnny Black 
    • Eugene Field (1850-1895)
  •  At Cheyenne 
  •  At The Door 
  •  Bion’s Song of Eros 
  •  Of Blessed Memory 
  •  Consistency 
  •  Extinct Monsters 
  •  Grandma’s Prayer 
  •  Human Nature 
  •  In Praise of Truth and Simplicity in Song 
  •  Intry-Mintry 
  •  Jessie 
  •  Little Boy Blue 
  •  Long Ago 
  •  The Night Wind 
  •  One Day I Got A Missive 
  •  Pike’s Peak 
  •  Pittypat and Tippytoe 
  •  Seein’ Things 
  •  Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks 
  •  Sometime 
  •  The Two Coffins 
    • James T. Fields
  •  The Tempest 
    • Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
  •  The Calf-Path 
  •  The Ideal Husband to His Wife 
  •  Odium Theologicum 
    • William Percy French
  •  Mountains O’Mourne 
    • Gary Friedman
  •  I Am The Very Model of an Engineering Graduate 
    • Robert Frost (1874-1963)
  •  Acquainted with the Night 
  •  Dust of Snow 
  •  Fire and Ice 
  •  Nothing Gold Can Stay 
  •  Once by the Pacific 
  •  On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations 
  •  Out, Out — 
  •  The Road Not Taken 
  •  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 
  •  Two Tramps in Mud Time 
    • Mary Elizabeth Frye
  •  I Am Not There 

    • G

    		 David Galef
  •  Enthalpy 
    • Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
  •  The Silver Swan 
    • Walker Gibson
  •  Advice to Travelers 
    • Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
  •  The Modern Major-General 
    • Dana Gioia
  •  Planting a Sequoia 
    • Edward Gorey
  •  The Ghastly Crumb Tines 
    • Howard Greenfield
  •  Crying in the Rain 
    • Edgar Guest (1881-1959)
  •  Father 
    • Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
  •  The Chip on the Shoulder 
  •  Heritage 
  •  My Hills of Dreams 
  •  On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness 
  •  Our New Religion 
  •  Pershing at the Front 
  •  Pithecanthropus Erectus 
  •  Sea Sickness 
  •  Strictly Germ-Proof 
    • Arlo Guthrie
  •  Mooses Come Walking 

    • H

    		 Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
  •  Song for a Fifth Child 
    • Alan Harris
  •  Experts and Folk 
  •  Here and the Ground 
  •  Sharing Copedom 
  •  A Younger Friend 
    • Sara Henderson Hay
  •  The Builders 
    • Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
  •  To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time 
    • Samuel Hoffenstein
  •  I Burned My Candle At Both Ends 
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
  •  The Deacon’s Masterpiece, or, the Wonderful One-hoss Shay: A Logical Story 
    • Reginald Holmes
  •  Sunrise Service 
    • Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
  •  I Remember, I Remember 
    • A.D. Hope
  •  Inscription for a War 
    • Joseph K. Horn
  •  Sins of My Old Age 
  •  An Ode to Richard M. Nixon 
    • A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
  •  To An Athlete Dying Young 
  •  Infant Innocence 
  •  The Lads in Their Hundreds 
  •  The Laws of God, The Laws of Man 
  •  Loveliest of Trees 
  •  Oh Who Is That Young Sinner 
  •  Oh, When I Was in Love With You 
  •  Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff 
  •  When I Was One-and-Twenty 
    • Mary Howitt
  •  The Spider and the Fly 
    • Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
  •  Theme for English B 
    • Brian Humpres
  •  The Hands of an Ancient Clock 
    • James Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
  •  Abou Ben Adhem 
    • John Hunter
  •  Dreams and Deeds 

    • J

    		 Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
  •  October’s Bright Blue Weather 
    • Kathryn and Byron Jackson
  •  Open Range 
    • Frank Jacobs
  •  Rudyard Kipling as a Job Consultant 

    • K

    		 Garrison Keillor
  •  The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (altered version) 
    • David Keppel
  •  Trouble 
    • X. J. Kennedy
  •  What We Might Be, What We Are 
    • Francis Scott Key
  •  The Defence of Fort McHenry (The Star-Spangled Banner) 
    • Aline Kilmer
  •  Tribute 
    • Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
  •  The House with Nobody In It 
  •  To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself 
  •  Trees 
    • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
  •  The Female of the Species 
  •  If 
    • Dave Kneeshaw
  •  The “Third Decree” 
    • Maxine Kumin
  •  The Microscope 

    • L

    		 Joseph Lauren
  •  The Frogs Who Wanted a King 
    • D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
  •  Piano 
    • Edward Lear (1812-1888)
  •  The Jumblies 
    • Tom Lehrer
  •  The Elements 
  •  We Will All Go Together When We Go 
    • Leiber and Stoller
  •  Don Juan 
  •  Love Potion Number Nine 
    • Carolyn Leigh
  •  Pass Me By 
    • Madeleine L’Engle
  •  Patrick’s Rune 
    • Alan Jay Lerner
  •  The Lusty Month of May (1960) 
    • Steven Levine
  •  A Better Model 
    • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
  •  Memory 
    • Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
  •  Factory Windows Are Always Broken 
  •  The Leaden-Eyed 
  •  The Unpardonable Sin 
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
  •  The Children’s Hour 
  • The Fire of Driftwood: Devereux Farm, near Marblehead  
  •  A Psalm of Life 
  •  The Poem of Thy Choice 
  •  Success 
    • Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
  •  To Althea, from Prison 
    • Henry F. Lyte
  •  Abide with Me 

    • M

    		 Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
  •  The End of the World 
    • John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
  •  High Flight 
    • Douglas Malloch
  •  Good Timber 
    • John Mansfield
  •  C. L. M. 
    • Edwin Markham
  •  Outwitted 
    • Michael Marks
  •  The Things I Carry 
    • Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
  •  To His Coy Mistress 
    • John Masefield (1878-1967)
  •  Cargoes 
  •  Sea Fever 
    • Marcia Masters
  •  April 
    • C. W. McCall
  •  Convoy 
    • Dr. John McCrae (1872-1918)
  •  In Flanders Fields 
  •  Penance 
    • Phyllis McGinley
  •  The Angry Man 
  •  A Garland of Precepts 
  •  Conversation in Avila 
  •  Homework for Annabelle 
  •  In Praise of Diversity 
  •  Report on a Situation 
  •  Text for Today 
    • Roger McGough
  •  Goodbat, Nightman 
    • Don McLean
  •  American Pie 
    • Fr. Ladislas Mécs, O.Praem.
  •  The Prince’s Three Sorrows 
  •  Something Pleased Me Very Much 
    • W. E. Mientka
  •  Hiawatha Designs an Experiment 
    • Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
  •  Ashes of Life 
  •  The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver 
  •  Dirge Without Music 
  •  Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare 
  •  First Fig 
  •  Lines for a Grave-Stone 
  •  The Little Ghost 
  •  Never May the Fruit Be Plucked 
  •  Recuerdo 
    • John Milton (1608-1674)
  •  Sonnet On His Blindness 
    • Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
  •  A Visit from Saint Nicholas 
    • David Morton (1886-1957)
  •  In an Old Street 
    • Jeffrey Moss
  •  The Butterfly Jar 
    • Mountain Therapy
  •  Silent Cry 
    • Joseph Francis Murphy
  •  Value Judgement 

    • N

    		 Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
  •  Compliments of a Friend 
  •  Confessions to be Traced on a Birthday Cake 
  •  Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too 
  •  A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty 
  •  Listen... 
  •  Old Men 
  •  One From One Leaves Two 
  •  The Pig 
  •  Pretty Halcyon Days 
  •  The Solitary Huntsman 
  •  Tableau at Twilight 
  •  The Tale of Custard the Dragon 
  •  To A Lady Passing Time Better Left Unpassed 
  •  A Word to Husbands 

    • O

    		 Charles Osgood
  •  Pretty Good 

    • P

    		 Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
  •  A Very Short Song 
  •  Bric-A-Brac 
  •  One Perfect Rose 
  •  Résumé 
  •  Sanctuary 
  •  The Searched Soul 
  •  Song in the Worst Possible Taste 
    • Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
  •  The Toys 
    • Tom Paxton
  •  Jimmy Newman 
    • Keith H. Peterson
  •  Tele Types 
    • Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
  •  A Dream Within A Dream 
  •  For Annie 
  •  The Raven 
    • Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
  •  An Immorality 
  •  Ballad of the Goodly Fere 

    • R

    		 Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
  •  Tears 
    • Kevin Rettig
  •  MACBETH.ZIP 
    • Malvina Reynolds
  •  Little Boxes 
    • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
  •  Vision 
    • Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1886-1941)
  •  Mumps 
    • Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
  •  Cliff Klingenhagen 
  •  Mr. Flood’s Party 
  •  Richard Cory 
    • Theodore Roethke (1908-63)
  •  The Bat 
  •  Child on Top of a Greenhouse 
  •  The Waking 
  •  My Papa’s Waltz 
    • Charles Henry Ross
  •  John, Tom, and James 
    • Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
  •  Remember 
    • Paul Rugg and John P. McCann
  •  Ballad of Magellan 

    • S

    		 Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
  •  Absolution 
  •  Base Details 
  •  Suicide in the Trenches 
    • John Godfrey Saxe
  •  The Blind Men and the Elephant 
    • Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
  •  Bible Inscription 
  •  Breathes There The Man 
    • Jack Segal
  •  Scarlet Ribbons 
    • Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
  •  The Cremation of Sam McGee 
  •  My Madonna 
    • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
  •  Sonnet 116 
    • Jessica Shaver
  •  HBRW 
  •  Methods 
    • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
  •  Ozymandias 
    • Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
  •  The Fool’s Prayer 
  •  Opportunity 
  •  Truth at Last 
    • Shel Silverstein (1932-1999)
  •  A Boy Named Sue 
  •  The Little Blue Engine 
  •  The Little Boy and the Old Man 
  •  My Nose Garden 
  •  Peanut-Butter Sandwich 
  •  Won’t You? 
    • Mark Smith-Soto
  •  Manhattan Buddha 
    • Robert Southey (1774-1843)
  •  The Battle of Blenheim 
    • Carlotta Eike Stankiewicz
  •  Mommy Brain 
    • George Sterling (1869-1926)
  •  The Black Vulture 
    • Ray Stevens
  •  Mississippi Squirrel Revival 
    • Marc Anthony Henderson (Rev. George A. Strong, 1832–1912)
  •  The Song of Milkanwatha 
    • Muriel Stuart
  •  The Seed Shop 

    • T

    		 John Banister Tabb
  •  A Child’s Prayer 
    • Jane Taylor
  •  The Star 
    • Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
  •  Barter 
  •  There Will Come Soft Rains 
    • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
  •  The Eagle 
    • Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
  •  Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night 
    • J.R.R. Tolkien
  •  All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter 
    • Conway Twitty
  •  Saturday Night Special 
    • Blake Tyler
  •  CuppuhJoe 

    • U

    		 Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
  •  Dorothy Dances 
  •  Prayer 
    • John Updike (1932-2009)
  •  Cosmic Gall 
  •  Requiem 

    • V

    		 P. R. Van Buskirk
  •  ’Twas the Bike before Christmas 
    • Henry Van Dyke
  •  America for Me 
  •  Joyful Journey 

    • W

    		 Bill Watterson
  •  4+5=? 
  •  Calvin’s Snowball Prayer 
  •  Mom and Dad Poem 
    • John Hall Wheelock
  •  Earth 
    • Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
  •  When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer 
    • John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
  •  The Barefoot Boy 
    • Margaret Widdemer
  •  The Watcher 
    • Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
  • From  The Ballad of Reading Gaol 
    • Dixie Willson
  •  The Mist and All 
    • Johnny Wilson
  •  Roses for Mama 
    • Samuel Woodworth
  •  The Old Oaken Bucket (original version) 
    • William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  •  She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways 
  •  We Are Seven 
    • Frederick A. Wright
  •  Letter to the City Clerk 

    • Y

    		 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
  •  The Song of Wandering Aengus 
  •  Those Images 
  •  When You Are Old 

    • Z

    		 Gene Ziegler
  • What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals?
     (original title: A Grandchild’s Guide to Using Grandpa’s Computer) 

    • ?

    		 Anonymous
  •  On Bodies and Spirits 
  •  The Bonny Streets of Fyve-io 
  •  The Ethical Major-General 
  •  The Flower 
  •  Get Thee to a Punnery 
  •  The Golden Vanity 
  •  Hush, Little Baby 
  •  If Christmas Day on Monday Be 
  •  The King’s English 
  •  Methuselah’s Diet 
  •  A Monk’s Bookplate 
  •  My Get-Up-And-Go Has Got Up And Went 
  •  The Old Oaken Bucket (As Revised by the Board of Health) 
  •  Our Lips and Ears 
  •  Prints in the Sand (parody) 
  •  The Race 
  •  Ravin’ 
  •  Saints and Sinners 
  •  Super Hero 
  •  Surprise in Heaven 
  •  Tree 
  •  Truth Never Dies 
  •  The Twelve Days of Christmas 
  •  Violet Vestments and Fishsticks on Fridays 

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