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Cecil Adams
Schrödinger’s Cat: The Straight Dope
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| Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960)
The Ballad of the Murdered Merchant
It Was A Famous Victory
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
A Psalm of Labouring Life
Recuerdo
Song of Synthetic Virility
To A Vers Librist
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| Arthur St John Adcock
The Divine Tragedy
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| Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
Bread and Music
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| Anna Jean Allen
Breakfast
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| Hervey Allen
Dead Men: To a Metaphysician
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| Bill Anderson
As Much As I Can Stand
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| John Atherton
Threes
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| 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
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Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
America the Beautiful
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| James Beattie (1735-1803)
Law
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| Michael Bell
Our Silence
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| 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
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| Ivan Berger
Commuter Flight
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| John Betjeman
The Lift Man
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| George Bilgere
Bridal Shower
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| Laurence Binyon
How to Make a Memory
In the High Leaves of a Walnut
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| Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
One Art
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| William Blake (1757-1827)
A Poison Tree
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| Michael Blumenthal
Light, at Thirty-Two
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| Stirling Bowen
Cages
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| Ray Bradbury
Remembrance
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| Joseph Brodsky
For Schoolchildren
|
| Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Grantchester, ah Grantchester!
Heaven
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| Gwendolyn Brooks
The Mother
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet #43
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Robert Browning (1812-1889)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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| Amelia Josephine Burr
Typhoon
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| Mike Buscemi
The Average Child
|
| George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
So, We’ll Go No More a-Roving
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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 (1841-1920)
A Nautical Ballad
|
| Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904)
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
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| Jimmy Carter (1924-)
A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, And Why
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Johnny Cash (1932-2003)
Shrimpin’ Sailin’
|
| G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
|
| John Ciardi (1916-1986)
Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo
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Will D. Cobb (1876–1930)
Waltz Me Around Again, Willie
|
| Billy Collins (1941-)
Some Days
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Martin Cooper
The Biplane Evermore
|
| Wendy Cope (1945-)
A Reading
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| Leslie Coulson
But A Short Time to Live
|
| Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Ball of Gold
I Saw a Man Pursuing
Many Workmen
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Jim Croce (1943-1973)
Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues
|
| Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
Motto
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| Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Incident
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| e. e. cummings (1894-1962)
maggie and milly and molly and may
“next to of course god america i
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|
Lt. Cmdr. Data
Ode to Spot
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| William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Leisure
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Billy Dean (1962-)
Billy the Kid
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Jimmy Dean (1928-2010)
Big Bad John
Little Black Book
|
| Philip F. Deaver (1946-)
The Worriers’ Guild
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| 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
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Neil Diamond (1941-)
Brooklyn Roads
|
| Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
A Book
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
I Never Saw a Moor
Success
|
| Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
On the Future of Poetry
|
| Natalie Dorsch
Just Because
|
| Will Allen Dromgoole
The Bridge Builder
|
| John Dryden (1631-1700)
Happy the Man
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|
T. S. Elliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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|
Robert Fanning
Crooked Wisdom
|
Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
Jenny White and Johnny Black
Morning Has Broken
|
| 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
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| James T. Fields (1817-1881)
The Tempest
|
| Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
The Calf-Path
The Ideal Husband to His Wife
Odium Theologicum
|
| William Percy French (1854-1920)
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
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| Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
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|
David Galef (1959-)
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 (1950-)
Planting a Sequoia
|
| Simeon Charles Goodwin, O.Praem.
The Sacred Heart
|
| Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
The Ghastly Crumb Tines
|
Howard Greenfield (1936-1986)
Crying in the Rain
|
| Edgar Guest (1881-1959)
Father
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| 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
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| Arlo Guthrie (1947-)
Mooses Come Walking
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|
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 (1890-1947)
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 (1907-2000)
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 (1799-1888)
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
|
|
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
October’s Bright Blue Weather
|
| Kathryn and Byron Jackson
Open Range
|
| Frank Jacobs
Rudyard Kipling as a Job Consultant
|
|
John Keats (1795-1821)
I Had a Dove
|
| Garrison Keillor (1942-)
Casey at the Bat: The Other Team’s Point of View
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (altered version)
|
| David Keppel
Trouble
|
| X. J. Kennedy (1929-)
What We Might Be, What We Are
|
| Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
The Defence of Fort McHenry (The Star-Spangled Banner)
|
| Aline Kilmer (1888-1941)
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 (1925-)
The Microscope
|
|
Joseph Lauren
The Frogs Who Wanted a King
|
| D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Piano
|
| Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The Jumblies
|
Tom Lehrer (1928-)
The Elements
We Will All Go Together When We Go
|
| Leiber and Stoller
Don Juan
Love Potion Number Nine
|
| Carolyn Leigh (1926-1983)
Pass Me By
|
| Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
Patrick’s Rune
|
Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
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 (1793-1847)
Abide with Me
|
|
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
The End of the World
|
| John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922-1941)
High Flight
|
| Douglas Malloch
Good Timber
|
| John Mansfield
C. L. M.
|
| Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
Outwitted
|
| Michael E. Marks (1960-)
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 (1928-)
Convoy
|
| John McCrae (1872-1918)
In Flanders Fields
Penance
|
| Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978)
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 (1937-)
Goodbat, Nightman
|
| Don McLean (1945-)
American Pie
|
| Fr. Ladislas Mécs, O.Praem. (1895-1978)
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)
Old Ships
In an Old Street
|
| Jeffrey Moss
The Butterfly Jar
|
| Mountain Therapy
Silent Cry
|
| Joseph Francis Murphy
Value Judgement
|
|
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
To My Valentine
A Word to Husbands
|
| Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
The Bee in Church
|
|
George O’Neil (1896-1940)
The Bather
|
| Charles Osgood (1933-)
Pretty Good
|
|
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 (1937-)
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
|
|
Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
Tears
|
| Kevin Rettig
MACBETH.ZIP
|
Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978)
Little Boxes
|
| Jessie B. Rittenhouse (1869–1948)
My Wage
Vision
|
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
Mumps
|
| Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Cliff Klingenhagen
Mr. Flood’s Party
Richard Cory
|
| Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
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
|
|
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Absolution
Base Details
Suicide in the Trenches
|
| John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
The Blind Men and the Elephant
|
| Eric Scholl
The Beach Was Virgin
No More Than Mary
|
| Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Bible Inscription
Breathes There The Man
|
| Jack Segal (1918-2005)
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)
One Word Is Too Often Profaned
Ozymandias
The Cloud
|
| Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
The Fool’s Prayer
Opportunity
Truth at Last
|
Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
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 (1939-)
Mississippi Squirrel Revival
|
| Marc Antony Henderson (Rev. George A. Strong, 1832–1912)
The Song of Milkanwatha
|
| Muriel Stuart (1885-1967)
The Seed Shop
|
|
John Banister Tabb (1845-1909)
A Child’s Prayer
|
| Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
The Star
|
| Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Barter
The Look
There Will Come Soft Rains
|
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Eagle
|
| Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)
Casey at the Bat
|
| Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
|
| J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
|
Conway Twitty
Saturday Night Special
|
| Blake Tyler
CuppuhJoe
|
|
Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
Dorothy Dances
Prayer
|
| John Updike (1932-2009)
Cosmic Gall
Requiem
|
|
P. R. Van Buskirk
’Twas the Bike before Christmas
|
| Henry Van Dyke
America for Me
Joyful Journey
|
|
Bill Watterson (1958-)
4+5=?
Calvin’s Snowball Prayer
Mom and Dad Poem
|
John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978)
Earth
|
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
|
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
The Barefoot Boy
|
Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978)
The Watcher
|
| Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
From The Ballad of Reading Gaol
|
| Dixie Willson
The Mist and All
|
| Johnny Wilson
Roses for Mama
|
| Clement Wood (1888-1950)
Sparta to Troy
|
| Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842)
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
|
| Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
Pretty Words
|
|
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Those Images
When You Are Old And Grey
|
|
Gene Ziegler
What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals? (original title: A Grandchild’s Guide to Using Grandpa’s Computer)
|
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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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