The anthology : poems for Poetry Out Loud : national recitation contest / edited by Dan Stone and Stephen Young.

Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
The unknown citizen / W. H. Auden
The more loving one / W. H. Auden
Love armed / Aphra Behn
The new decalogue / Ambrose Bierce
The tyger / William Blake
Women / Louise Bogan
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet
Shall earth no more inspire thee / Emily Bronte
The soldier / Rupert Brooke
Sadie and Maud / Gwendolyn Brooks
How do I love the? let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My last duchess / Robert Browning
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow / Thomas Campion
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
To the ladies / Lady Mary Chudleigh
I am / John Clare
[If mama/could see] / Lucille Clifton
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My grandmother's love letters / Hart Crane
Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen
Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E. E. Cummings
Black boys play the classics / Toi Derricotte.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson
I heard a fly buzz
when I died / Emily Dickinson
The good-morrow / John Donne
Song / John Donne
Helen / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
The secret garden / Rita Dove
We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Preludes / T. S. Eliot
When I was fair and young / Queen Elizabeth I
Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bilingual/bilingue / Rhina P. Espaillat
Adam posed / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The road not taken / Robert Frost
Fire and ice / Robert Frost
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
Ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes / Thomas Gray
Channel firing / Thomas Hardy
Eagle poem / Joy Harjo
Grandfather / Michael S. Harper
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
The pulley / George Herbert
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pied Beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins
To an athlete dying young / A. E. Housman.

Battle-hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe
The spider and the fly / Marry Howitt
Harlem / Langston Hughes
Lift ev'ry voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson
Song to Celia / Ben Jonson
When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats
La belle dame sans merci: a ballad / John Keats
Trees / Joyce Kilmer
Kindness / Yusef Komunyakaa
The new colossus / Emma Lazarus
The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear
The gift / Li-Young Lee
Learning to love America / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
General William Booth enters into heaven / Vachel Lindsay
A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
Song of the powers / David Mason
Mrs. Kessler / Edgar Lee Masters
Romance / Claude McKay
The maldive shark / Herman Melville
I think I should have loved you presently / Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay
When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton
The delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday
Poetry / Marianne Moore
How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson
The poet / Yone Noguchi
Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen
One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker
Epitaph / Katherine Philips
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe
Ode on Solitude / Alexander Pope.

Envoi / Ezra Pound
The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Ralegh
Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Up-hill / Christina Rossetti
To the desert / Benjamin Alire Saenz
Chicago / Carl Sandburg
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (29) / William Shakespeare
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments (55) / William Shakespeare
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oh, hope! thou soother sweet of human woes / Charlotte Smith
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens
A satirical Elegy on the death fo a late famous general / Jonathan Swift
Gitanjali / Rabindranath Tagore
Let it be forgotten / Sara Teasdale
The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
November cotton flower / Jean Toomer
Deliberate / Amy Uyematsu
Song / Edmund Waller
On virtue / Phillis Wheatley
I hear America singing / Walt Whitman
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier
Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams
The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth
They flee from me that sometime did me seek / Sir Thomas Wyatt
Cold blooded creatures / Elinor Wylie
The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
When you are old / William Butler Yeats.