PRETTY GOOD POETRY

    John MaCrae
        In Flanders Fields
        Unsolved
        The Night Cometh
        Then and Now
        Penance

    Alfred Noyes
        The Highwayman

    Robert Frost
        Fire and Ice
        Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Rudyard Kipling
        If
        The Law of the Jungle (excerpt)

    Oliver Wendall Holmes
        The Deacon's Masterpiece 

    John Peale Bishop
        A Recollection  

    Percy Bysshe Shelly
         Ozymandias

    Edna St. Vincent Millay
        
Sonnet #30
         Spring

    Abraham Lincoln
        
Letter to Mrs. Bixby  (extraordinary prose)

    William Blake
       
The Fly
       
The Tyger

   T.S. Eliot
        The Hollow Men

    Omar Khayyam
        The Rubaiyat (excerpt-1)
        The Rubaiyat (excerpt-2)

    Duncan Campbell Scott
        The Forsaken
        Enigma

   Wendell Berry
       
Do Not Be Ashamed

    Edith Nesbit
      
  The Despot

    Walt Whitman
      
  A Noiseless Patient Spider

    Carl Sandberg
      
  Languages

    Eric Idle
      
  All Things Dull and Ugly

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
      
  Nature

    William Cory
        Mimnermus in Church

   Don Imis*
        Plastic Jesus

   Francis William Bourdillon
        The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

   William Shakespeare
        Soliloquy from Hamlet

    Amy Levy
       
Magdalen

   Hank Williams
       
I'm So Lonesome I could Cry

   Aleksander Pushkin
       
I Loved You

   Charles L. Williamson
       
Flame Testing HAIKU
       
Slippery Edges
        What If?
       
Gossamer

   Ralph Waldo Emerson
       
Brahma

    Jalaluddin Rumi
      
 
It is Thee

    Emily Dicknson
       
"Hope" Is A Thing With Feathers

   Joseph Conrad
       
In Youth (poetic prose)

   William Ernest Henley
     
Invictus

    Paul Lawrence Dunbar
      
Life's Tragedy

    Bliss Carman
       Earth Voices

    Emma Lazarus
        The New Colossus

    Everly Brothers (performed by)
       
Let It Be Me  (lyrics)

    Unknown
        Risk and Freedom

    William Butler Yeats
        The Mermaid

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