PRETTY GOOD POETRY
John McCrae
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 Imus*
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 Dickinson
"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