101 great American poems

Anne Bradstreet (To my dear and loving husband)

Phillis Wheatley (from To the right honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth)

William Cullen Bryant (Thanatopsis)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Concord hymn ; The snow-storm)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The arrow and the song ; The builders ; The children's hour ; The day is done ; Paul Revere's ride)

Edgar Allan Poe (Alone ; Annabel Lee ; The conqueror worm ; The raven ; To Helen)

Abraham Lincoln (My childhood's home I see again)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Old Ironsides)

Herman Melville (Misgivings)

Walt Whitman (I hear America singing ; I sit and look out ; Miracles ; A noiseless patient spider ; O captain! My captain! ; from Song of myself ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer)

Frances E.W. Harper (Bury me in a free land ; Songs for the people).

(Cont. 2) Emily Dickinson (Because I could not stop for Death ; Death sets a thing significant ; Hope is a thing with feathers ; I died for beauty ; If I can stop one heart from breaking ; I'm nobody! Who are you? ; My life closed twice before its close ; Success is counted sweetest ; There is no frigate like a book ; This is my letter to the world)

Emma Lazarus (The new colossus)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Solitude)

Ernest Lawrence (Casey at the bat)

Edgar Lee Masters (The unknown)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (Miniver Cheevy ; Mr. Flood's party ; Richard Cory)

Stephen Crane (I saw a man pursuing the horizon ; War is kind)

James Weldon Johnson (Sence you went away)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (The lesson ; Sympathy ; We wear the mask)

Gertrude Stein (Susie Asado)

Robert Frost (Acquainted with the night ; After apple-picking ; Birches ; Design ; Fire and ice ; Mending wall.

(Cont. 3) Nothing gold can stay ; The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Two tramps in mud time)

Carl Sandburg (Chicago ; Fog ; I am the people, the mob)

Vachel Lindsay (Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight ; Euclid ; The leaden-eyed)

Wallace Stevens (The emperor of ice-cream ; Gubbinal ; The reader ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird)

William Carlos Williams (The great figure ; The red wheelbarrow ; This is just to say ; The widow's lament in springtime)

Sara Teasdale (Peace)

Ezra Pound (In a station of the Metro ; The river-merchant's wife: a letter)

Robinson Jeffers (Shine, perishing republic ; Shine republic)

Marianne Moore (Poetry)

T.S. Eliot (The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock)

Claude McKay (After the winter ; If we must die ; The tropics in New York).

(Cont. 4) Edna St. Vincent Millay (First fig ; Recuerdo)

Archibald MacLeish (Ars poetica ; The end of the world)

e.e. cummings (since feeling is first)

Jean Toomer (Her lips are copper wire ; Reapers)

Langston Hughes (Dream deferred [Harlem] ; I, too ; Little old letter ; Mother to son ; The Negro speaks of rivers ; Still here)

Countee Cullen (For Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Incident)

W.H. Auden (The unknown citizen).