| The Abortion | Anne Sexton |
| Adultery | James Dickey |
| Annie | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Barbara | Jacques Prévert |
| The Beautiful Rider | Arja Tiainen |
| Bending the Bow | Robert Duncan |
| Birth of Love | Robert Penn Warren |
| Breaking Up | Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
| Broken-Face Gargoyles | Carl Sandburg |
| Buying the Whore | Anne Sexton |
| Carrier Letter | Hart Crane |
| Chanson d'automne | Paul Verlaine |
| Le Cheval rouge | Jacques Prévert |
| A Cloud in Trousers [Part 1] | Vladimir Mayakovsky |
| Colours | Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
| Come Back | Kevin Hart |
| Conversation | Elizabeth Bishop |
| Counting the Beats | Robert Graves |
| Daybreak | Stephen Spender |
| Delight in Disorder | Robert Herrick |
| Dirge in Woods | George Meredith |
| Dit de la Force de l'amour | Paul Éluard |
| Dover Beach | Matthew Arnold |
| Dream Song 14 | John Berryman |
| Eighteen | Maria Banus |
| Elegy | Ambrose Bierce |
| Elegy for Jane | Theodore Roethke |
| Exiled | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| A Form of Women | Robert Creeley |
| The Fury of Cocks | Anne Sexton |
| Gacela of the Flight | Federico García Lorca |
| The Girl's Desire Moves Among Her Bangles | Gagan Gill |
| Glückloser Engel 2 | Heiner Müller |
| Go, Ill-Sped Book | John Berryman |
| The Good-Morrow | John Donne |
| The Heart Asks Pleasure First | Emily Dickinson |
| Helen | H. D. |
| Here Is a Wound | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| I Ask Time for Words | Hannu Mäkelä |
| I Can Write | Pablo Neruda |
| I Knew a Woman | Theodore Roethke |
| I Shall Go Back | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Idea LXI | Michael Drayton |
| In Mind | Denise Levertov |
| In My Craft or Sullen Art | Dylan Thomas |
| In the Desert | Stephen Crane |
| The Indifferent | John Donne |
| it may not always be so; and i say | e. e. cummings |
| La vie c'est la vie | Jessie Redmon Fauset |
| Lady, Lady | Anne Spencer |
| Le pont Mirabeau | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Losing Track | Denise Levertov |
| Love | Edith Södergran |
| Love, My Machine | Louis Simpson |
| Love Poem | John Logan |
| Lullaby | Léonie Adams |
| Mirror | Sylvia Plath |
| My Last Duchess | Robert Browning |
| My November Guest | Robert Frost |
| Near the Zam Zam Well | Ghalib |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes |
| Neue Liebe, neues Leben | Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
| Nevermore | Paul Verlaine |
| No Use | W. D. Snodgrass |
| Nocturne by Ben Shahn | R. S. Thomas |
| Not Dead | Robert Graves |
| Not to Keep | Robert Frost |
| On the death of that most excellent lady, the Marquise de Mancera | Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz |
| Parting | Else Lasker-Schüler |
| Pity Me Not | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| The Pity of Love | W. B. Yeats |
| Planetary Exchange | Amiri Baraka |
| The River | Thomas Swiss |
| Seulette suis [Ballade] | Christine de Pisan |
| Shadows | Djuna Barnes |
| Snow Letter | Werner Aspenström |
| Somebody's Song | Dorothy Parker |
| Song of the Barren Orange Tree | Federico García Lorca |
| From The Song of Solomon | |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese 14 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Stars Are Again Like a Teary Ballad | Sirkka Turkka |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| Survey of Literature | John Crowe Ransom |
| Sweet and Low | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Tavern | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Three Trees | Marja-Liisa Vartio |
| To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell |
| Valentine's | Cosma Shalizi |
| Wandering About Campus Before Dawn | Cosma Shalizi |
| The Warning | Robert Creeley |
| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| When I Heard at the Close of the Day | Walt Whitman |
| Where Does This Tenderness Come From? | Marina Tsvetaeva |
| With Child | Genevieve Taggard |
| With His Venom | Sappho |
| Words for Departure | Louise Bogan |