from the Iliad / Homer --
He is more than a hero / Sappho --
Psalm 23/ the Psalmist --
from the Song of songs [Chapter One] / Anonymous--
Song 5 to Lesbia/ by Catullus --
From The Aeneid / Virgil --
From Metamorphoses / Ovid --
Drinking alone in the moonlight / Li Po --
Madly singing in the mountains / Po Chu-i --
Rubaiyat / Omar Khayyam --
From Inferno / Dante Alighieri --
Remembrance / Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca] --
From general prologue to the canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Ballad of ladies of the past / Francois Villon --
Sonnet 18 / William Shakespeare --
Go and catch a falling star / John Donne --
Song to Celia II / Ben Jonson --
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick --
Jordan / George Herbert --
When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton --
from the Prologue / Anne Bradstreet --
Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace --
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell --
An old pond / Matsuo Basho --
Epigram: Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness / Alexander Pope --
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray --
To Jeoffry His Cat / Christopher Smart --
Amazing grace / John Newton --
Tyger! tyger! / William Blake --
To a mouse / Robert Burns --
Ode to joy / Friedrich von Schiller --
Don't kill that fly! / Kobayashi Issa --
World is too much with us / William Wordsworth --
Lay of the last minstrel / Walter Scott --
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore --
Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt --
She walks in beauty / Lord Byron --
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant --
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats --
Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier --
El Desdichado [The Disinherited] / Gerard de Nerval --
Raven / Edgar Allan Poe --
Ulysses / Alfred; Lord Tennyson --
Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear --
Memorabilia / Robert Browning --
Often rebuked, yet always back returning / Emily Bronte --
Song of myself / Walt Whitman --
Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe --
Invitation to the voyage / Charles Baudelaire --
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold --
Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson --
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll --
Convergence of the train/ Thomas Hardy --
Spring and fall (Margaret are you grieving)/ Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Tears fall in my heart/ Paul Verlaine --
The new colossus/ Emma Lazarus --
Requiem/ Robert Lewis Stevenson --
The drunken boat/ Arthur Rimbaud --
The ballad of reading gaol/ Oscar Wilde --
When I was one-and-tenty/ A.E. Housman --
The Gardener/ Rabindranath Tagore --
Waiting for the barbarians/ Constantine P. Cavafy --
Gunga din/ Rudyard Kipling --
Lake isle of Innisfree/ William Butler Yeats --
Richard Cory/ Edwin Arlington Robinson --
We wear the mask/ Paul Lawrence Dunbar --
The cremation of Sam McGee/ Robert Service --
Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening/ Robert Frost --
The panther/ Rainer Maria Rilke --
Sea fever/ John Masefield --
General William Booth enters into Heaven/ Vachel Lindsay --
Peter Quince at the clavier/ Wallace Stevens --
The highwayman/ Alfred Noyes --
The red wheelbarrow/ William Carlos Williams --
Ancient music/ Ezra Pound --
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock/ T.S.Eliot --
First fig/ Edna St.Vincent Millay --
Dulce et decorum est/ Wilfred Owen --
Buffalo Bill's/ E.E. Cummings --
from Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Meijas(Absence of the soul 4)/ Federico Garcia Lorca --
Harlem (dreams deferred)/ Langston Hughes --
Incident/ Countee Cullen --
Funeral blues/ W.H.Auden --
Visits to St.Elizabeth's/ Elizabeth Bishop --
This land is your land/ Woodie Guthrie --
Do not go gentle into that good night/ Dylan Thomas --
A supermarket in California/ Allen Ginsberg --
Waiting to die/ Anne Sexton --
StillI rise/ Maya Angelou.
