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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
Broadmindedness
Georgie Porgie
It Was A Famous Victory
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Oh Man!
A Psalm of Labouring Life
Recuerdo
Song of Synthetic Virility
Such Stuff As Dreams
To A Vers Librist
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Arthur St John Adcock (1864-1930)
By Deputy
The Eternal Plaything (from 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
Saginaw, Michigan
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David Gwilym Anthony
Cushioning the Blow
Father of the Man
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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
A Song of Riches
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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
Matilda Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death
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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Roy C. Bennett (1918-2015)
The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane
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Ralph Bergengren (18711947)
The Worm
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Ivan Berger
Commuter Flight
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John Betjeman (1906-1984)
The Lift Man
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George Bilgere (1951-)
Bridal Shower
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Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
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
Excerpts from Auguries of Innocence
The Garden of Love
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Michael Blumenthal
Light, at Thirty-Two
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Boney M.
Rasputin
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Stirling Bowen
Cages
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Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
Remembrance
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Berton Braley (1882-1966)
Do It Now
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Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
For Schoolchildren
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Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Grantchester, ah Grantchester!
Heaven
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Garth Brooks
Unanswered Prayers
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
The Mother
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Sonnet #43
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Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
The Richest Man in the World
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Amelia Josephine Burr (1878-1968)
Typhoon
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Mike Buscemi
The Average Child
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George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
So, We’ll Go No More a-Roving
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Mary C. G. Byron (1861-1936)
The Tryst of the Night
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Scott Cairns
The Spiteful Jesus
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Archie Campbell
Trouble in the Amen Corner
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Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
The River of Life
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Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
True Beauty
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898)
Jabberwocky
Hiawatha’s Photographing
The Mad Gardener’s Song
You Are Old, Father William
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William Herbert Carruth (18591924)
Each in His Own Tongue
Ghosts of Dreams
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Charles Edward Carryl (1841-1920)
A Nautical Ballad
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Guy Wetmore Carryl (18731904)
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’
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Charles Causley (1917-2003)
Timothy Winters
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Henry Chappell
A Soldier’s Kiss
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John Vance Cheney
The Happiest Heart
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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
The Donkey
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
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Marchette Gaylord Chute
The Pirate Cook
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John Ciardi (1916-1986)
Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo
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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
The Latest Decalogue
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Will D. Cobb (18761930)
Waltz Me Around Again, Willie
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Robert P. T. Coffin (1892-1955)
Crystal Moment
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Billy Collins (1941-)
Some Days
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Confederate Railroad
She Never Cried
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Katherine Eleanor Conway
The Heaviest Cross of All
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Martin Cooper
The Biplane Evermore
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Wendy Cope (1945-)
A Reading
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Leslie Coulson
But A Short Time to Live
|
William Cowper (1731-1800)
The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
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Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
The Ball of Gold
I Saw a Man Pursuing
Many Workmen
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Sadie Tiller Crawley
The Upward Reach
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Jim Croce (1943-1973)
Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues
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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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Mary Kyle Dallas
He'd Nothing but His Violin
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Lt. Cmdr. Data
Ode to Spot
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William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
The Beautiful
Leisure
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Thomas Augustine Daly (1871-1948)
The Poet
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Billy Dean (1962-)
Billy the Kid
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Jimmy Dean (1928-2010)
Big Bad John
Little Black Book
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Philip F. Deaver (1946-)
The Worriers’ Guild
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Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
Bones
The Listeners
A Song of Enchantment
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John Denver (1943-1997)
Singing Skies and Dancing Waters
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Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
In August
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Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston
The March of 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
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Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
On the Future of Poetry
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Natalie Dorsch
Just Because
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Will Allen Dromgoole
The Bridge Builder
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John Dryden (1631-1700)
Happy the Man
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
October
The Poet and His Song
Sympathy
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Marriott Edgar (1880-1951)
The Lion and Albert
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T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Robert Fanning
Crooked Wisdom
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Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
Jenny White and Johnny Black
Morning Has Broken
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Eugene Field (1850-1895)
At Cheyenne
At The Door
Bion’s Song of Eros
Of Blessed Memory
Consistency
The Delectable Ballad of The Waller Lot
The Duel
Extinct Monsters
Grandma’s Prayer
Human Nature
A Hushaby Song
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
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod: A Dutch Lullaby
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James T. Fields (1817-1881)
The Tempest
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Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
The Calf-Path
The Ideal Husband to His Wife
Odium Theologicum
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William Percy French (1854-1920)
Mountains O’Mourne
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Gary Friedman
I Am The Very Model of an Engineering Graduate
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Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Acquainted with the Night
After Apple-Picking
Dust of Snow
Fire and Ice
Good Hours
Mending Wall
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
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Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
The Silver Swan
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Walker Gibson
Advice to Travelers
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
The Modern Major-General
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Dana Gioia (1950-)
Planting a Sequoia
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Charles Goodwin (1988-)
The Sacred Heart
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Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
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Howard Greenfield (1936-1986)
Crying in the Rain
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Edgar Guest (1881-1959)
Division
Father
It Couldn't Be Done
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Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
The Chip on the Shoulder
Habits of the Hippopotamus
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
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Erin Hanson
Not
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Alan Harris
Experts and Folk
Here and the Ground
Sharing Copedom
A Younger Friend
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Rolf Harris (1930)
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
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Piet Hein (1905-1996)
A Reproof: a grook in answer to a long explanitory letter
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Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835)
Casabianca
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Sara Henderson Hay
The Builders
|
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
Upon Julia's Clothes
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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
The Height of the Ridiculous
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Reginald Holmes
Sunrise Service
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Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
I Remember, I Remember
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A.D. Hope (1907-2000)
Inscription for a War
|
Joseph K. Horn
The Mean Letter
The Mirror
Riddle Poem
Sins of My Old Age
An Ode to Richard M. Nixon
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A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
To An Athlete Dying Young
I Did Not Lose My Heart In Summer's Even
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
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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
|
Mary Howitt (1799-1888)
The Spider and the Fly
|
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Theme for English B
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Brian Humpres
The Hands of an Ancient Clock
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James Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Abou Ben Adhem
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John Hunter
Dreams and Deeds
|
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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
August
October’s Bright Blue Weather
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Kathryn and Byron Jackson
Open Range
|
Frank Jacobs
Rudyard Kipling as a Job Consultant
|
Tudor Jenks
Small and Early
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Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001)
My Grandmother
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John Keats (1795-1821)
I Had a Dove
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
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Garrison Keillor (1942-)
Casey at the Bat: The Other Teams Point of View
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (altered version)
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David Keppel
Trouble
|
Maurice G. Kendall (1907-1983)
Hiawatha Designs an Experiment
|
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
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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—
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Dave Kneeshaw
The “Third Decree”
|
Maxine Kumin (1925-)
The Microscope
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George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898)
The Child's Wish Granted
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Joseph Lauren
The Frogs Who Wanted a King
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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
|
Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
A Hymn to Him
The Lusty Month of May
What Do the Simple Folk Do?
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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 Arrow and the Song
The Children’s Hour
The Fire of Driftwood: Devereux Farm, near Marblehead
A Psalm of Life
The Poem of Thy Choice
Success
The Wreck of the Hesperus
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Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
To Althea, from Prison
|
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
The First Snow-Fall
|
Elliot Lurie (b. 1948)
Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
|
Henry F. Lyte (1793-1847)
Abide with Me
|
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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
The End of the World
|
John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922-1941)
High Flight
|
Herb Magidson (1906-1986)
Enjoy Yourself
|
Tommy Makem (1932-2007)
The Rambles of Spring
|
Douglas Malloch
Good Timber
|
Marya Mannes
Help Wanted
|
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
To His Mother, C. L. M.
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Marcia Masters
April
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Vincent Matthews
Christopher Robin Is Alive And Well
|
C. W. McCall (1928-)
Convoy
Wolf Creek Pass
|
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
Lament of the Normal Child
Report on a Situation
Text for Today
|
Roger McGough (1937-)
Goodbat, Nightman
|
Don McLean (1945-)
American Pie
|
Irene R. McLeod (1891-1968)
Lone Dog
When My Beloved Sleeping Lies
|
Fr. Ladislas Mécs, O.Praem. (1895-1978)
The Prince’s Three Sorrows
Something Pleased Me Very Much
|
Jim Messina (1947-)
Lahaina
|
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
To a Child in Death
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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
|
Joaquin Miller (1837-1913)
For Those Who Fail
|
Kadish Millet
What's More American?
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Rose Milligan
Dust if You Must
|
John Milton (1608-1674)
Sonnet On His Blindness
|
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
A Visit from Saint Nicholas
|
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
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David Morton (1886-1957)
The Kings Are Passing Deathward
Old Ships
In an Old Street
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Jeffrey Moss
The Butterfly Jar
|
Mountain Therapy
Silent Cry
|
Joseph Francis Murphy
Value Judgement
|
Jessie Wilmore Murton (1886-1973)
Strength
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Adventures of Isabel
The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus
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...
Little Feet
Old Men
One From One Leaves Two
The Pig
Pretty Halcyon Days
The Solitary Huntsman
A Song Before Breakfast
Tableau at Twilight
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
To A Lady Passing Time Better Left Unpassed
To My Valentine
Which the Chicken, Which the Egg?
A Word to Husbands
The Wrongs of Spring
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Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
The Bee in Church
|
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George O’Neil (1896-1940)
The Bather
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Charles Osgood (1933-)
Pretty Good
|
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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
The Marvelous Toy
|
Keith H. Peterson
Tele Types
|
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
A Dream Within A Dream
For Annie
The Raven
|
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Ode on Solitude
Universal Prayer
|
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
An Immorality
Ballad of the Goodly Fere
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John Crowe Ransom (18881974)
Janet Waking
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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
Tears
|
Kevin Rettig
MACBETH.ZIP
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Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978)
Little Boxes
|
Laura E. Richards (1850-1943)
Antonio
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Antonia Ridge (1895-1981)
The Happy Wanderer
|
Jessie B. Rittenhouse (18691948)
My Wage
Vision
|
Marty Robbins (1925-1982)
El Paso
|
Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
Mumps
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Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Cliff Klingenhagen
Mr. Flood’s Party
Richard Cory
Tact
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Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
The Bat
Child on Top of a Greenhouse
The Waking
My Papa’s Waltz
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Charles Henry Ross
John, Tom, and James
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Remember
Up-Hill
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Paul Rugg and John P. McCann
Ballad of Magellan
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Barry Sadler (1940-1989)
I'm A Lucky One
|
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Absolution
Base Details
Suicide in the Trenches
|
Minot J. Savage (1841-1918)
Where is God?
|
John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
The Blind Men and the Elephant
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Eric Scholl
The Beach Was Virgin
No More Than Mary
|
Lesbia Scott
I Sing a Song of the Saints of God
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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Bible Inscription
Breathes There The Man
Lochinvar
|
Anderson M. Scruggs (1897-1955)
Christmas Today
Glory To Them
Journey's End
Man Is Forever Lonely
Only the Dream Is Real
Sonnet on Turning a Radio Dial
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Jack Segal (1918-2005)
Scarlet Ribbons
|
Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
The Cremation of Sam McGee
My Madonna
|
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 116
The Triumph of Death
|
Jessica Reynolds Shaver
The Chastening
HBRW
I Told God I Was Angry
Letting Tom Go
Methods
Silver Anniversary
|
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
One Word Is Too Often Profaned
Ozymandias
The Cloud
|
Robert B. Sherman (1925-2012)
The Ugly Bug Ball
|
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Loving in Truth
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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?
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Mark Smith-Soto
Manhattan Buddha
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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, 18321912)
The Song of Milkanwatha
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Muriel Stuart (1885-1967)
The Seed Shop
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Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929) [N.B. His last name was "Studdert Kennedy", not "Kennedy"]
Indifference
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John Banister Tabb (1845-1909)
A Child’s Prayer
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Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
The Star
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Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Barter
The Coin
Crowned
In a Restaurant
The Look
Night Song at Amalfi
Pity
The Sea Wind
Spring
The Star
There Will Come Soft Rains
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Eagle
|
Sid Tepper (1918-2015)
The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane
|
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940)
Casey at the Bat
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Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
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Conway Twitty
Saturday Night Special
|
Blake Tyler
CuppuhJoe
|
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Björn Ulvaeus
The Day Before You Came
|
Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
Dorothy Dances
Prayer
Walter de la Mare Tells His Listeners About Jack and Jill
|
John Updike (1932-2009)
Cosmic Gall
Requiem
|
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P. R. Van Buskirk
’Twas the Bike before Christmas
|
Henry Van Dyke
America for Me
Joyful Journey
|
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William Ross Wallace (1819-1881)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules the World
|
Bill Watterson (1958-)
4+5=?
Calvin’s Snowball Prayer
Mom and Dad Poem
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Willy Welch
Right Field
|
John Hall Wheelock (1886-1978)
Earth
|
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
The Barefoot Boy
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Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978)
The Watcher
|
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Friendship after Love
|
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
From The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Dixie Willson
The Mist and All
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Johnny Wilson
Roses for Mama
|
Clement Wood (1888-1950)
Sparta to Troy
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Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842)
The Old Oaken Bucket (original version)
|
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Daffodils
My Heart Leaps Up
She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
We Are Seven
To Sleep
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Henry Clay Work (1832-1884)
My Grandfather's Clock
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Frederick A. Wright
Letter to the City Clerk
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Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
Pretty Words
|
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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Song of Wandering Aengus
Those Images
When You Are Old And Grey
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Gene Ziegler
What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals?
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Anonymous
On Bodies and Spirits
The Bonny Streets of Fyve-io
The Critic
The Ethical Major-General
The Flower
Get Thee to a Punnery
The Golden Vanity
Hush, Little Baby
If Christmas Day on Monday Be
I Wandered Lonely as a Clod
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
Patrick’s Rune
Prints in the Sand (parody)
The Proper Way
The Race
Ravin’
Saints and Sinners
Super Hero
Surprise in Heaven
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Tree
Truth Never Dies
Violet Vestments and Fishsticks on Fridays
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