PRETTY GOOD POETRY

    John MaCrae
        In Flanders Fields
        Unsolved
        The Night Cometh
        Then and Now
        Penance

    Alfred Noyes
        The Highwayman

    Robert Frost
        Fire and Ice
        Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Rudyard Kipling
        If
        The Law of the Jungle (excerpt)

    Oliver Wendall Holmes
        The Deacon's Masterpiece 

    John Peale Bishop
        A Recollection  

    Percy Bysshe Shelly
         Ozymandias

    Edna St. Vincent Millay
         Sonnet #30
         Spring

    Abraham Lincoln
         Letter to Mrs. Bixby  (extraordinary prose)

    William Blake
        The Fly
        The Tyger

   T.S. Eliot
        The Hollow Men

    Omar Khayyam
        The Rubaiyat (excerpt-1)
        The Rubaiyat (excerpt-2)

    Duncan Campbell Scott
        The Forsaken
        Enigma

   Wendell Berry
        Do Not Be Ashamed

    Edith Nesbit
        The Despot

    Walt Whitman
        A Noiseless Patient Spider

    Carl Sandberg
        Languages

    Eric Idle
        All Things Dull and Ugly

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
        Nature

    William Cory
        Mimnermus in Church

   Don Imis*
        Plastic Jesus

   Francis William Bourdillon
        The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

   William Shakespeare
        Soliloquy from Hamlet

    Amy Levy
        Magdalen

   Hank Williams
        I'm So Lonesome I could Cry

   Aleksander Pushkin
        I Loved You

   Charles L. Williamson
        Flame Testing HAIKU
        Slippery Edges
        What If?
        Gossamer

   Ralph Waldo Emerson
        Brahma

    Jalaluddin Rumi
         It is Thee

    Emily Dicknson
       "Hope" Is A Thing With Feathers

   Joseph Conrad
        In Youth (poetic prose)

   William Ernest Henley
      Invictus

    Paul Lawrence Dunbar
       Life's Tragedy

    Bliss Carman
       Earth Voices

    Emma Lazarus
        The New Colossus

    Everly Brothers (performed by)
        Let It Be Me  (lyrics)

    Unknown
        Risk and Freedom

    William Butler Yeats
        The Mermaid

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