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Introduction
Things / Eloise Greenfield
Early middle ages, 400-1000. A bookworm / Anonymous
A solitary wildgoose / Cui Tu
Grass / Bai Juyi
In praise of a sword given him by his prince / Colman mac Lenini
High middle ages, 1000-1500. Grainfield / Ibn ?Iy?d
A just-finishing candle / Rumi
On this summer night / Jusammi Chikako
The Renaissance, 1500-late 1600s. Midnight frost / Bash?
from Mercutio's Queen Mab speech / William Shakespeare
So breaks the sun / Ben Jonson
A burnt ship / John Donne
Stick and hat / Emperor L ̊Thǹh Tn̥g
I spy the three-colored peach blossom / Kim Ku
The Enlightenment, late 1600s-1785. An hymn to the evening / Phillis Wheatley
Retort on Mordaunt's "The call" / John Scott of Amwell
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
Romantic period, 1785-1830. The sick rose / William Blake
To the moon / Charlotte Smith
A riddle, on the letter E / George Gordon, Lord Byron
Mouse's nest / John Clare
I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth
Victorian period, 1837-1901. The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Snow-flakes / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The haunted palace / Edgar Allan Poe
The dismantled ship / Walt Whitman
Street lanterns / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson
Cobwebs / Christina Georgina Rossetti
The railway train / Emily Dickinson.
Modern period, 1900-1945. The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
The love tree / Countee Cullen
Fan-piece for Her Imperial Lord / Ezra Pound
The cat and the moon / William Butler Yeats
Stars / Langston Hughes
A cloud shadow / Robert Frost
Driftwood / Witter Bynner
Boxes and bags / Carl Sandburg
City trees / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Postmodern period, 1945-present. Manhole covers / Karl Shapiro
Mushrooms / Sylvia Plath
Lament, for Cocoa / John Updike
i thank You God for most this amazing / e.e. cummings
The cat / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Contemporary. Ode to a stamp album / Pablo Neruda
The summer day / Mary Oliver
A birthday card / Ted Kooser
The death of the hat / Billy Collins
Flash cards / Rita Dove
Famous / Naomi Shihab Nye.
Things / Eloise Greenfield
Early middle ages, 400-1000. A bookworm / Anonymous
A solitary wildgoose / Cui Tu
Grass / Bai Juyi
In praise of a sword given him by his prince / Colman mac Lenini
High middle ages, 1000-1500. Grainfield / Ibn ?Iy?d
A just-finishing candle / Rumi
On this summer night / Jusammi Chikako
The Renaissance, 1500-late 1600s. Midnight frost / Bash?
from Mercutio's Queen Mab speech / William Shakespeare
So breaks the sun / Ben Jonson
A burnt ship / John Donne
Stick and hat / Emperor L ̊Thǹh Tn̥g
I spy the three-colored peach blossom / Kim Ku
The Enlightenment, late 1600s-1785. An hymn to the evening / Phillis Wheatley
Retort on Mordaunt's "The call" / John Scott of Amwell
A red, red rose / Robert Burns
Romantic period, 1785-1830. The sick rose / William Blake
To the moon / Charlotte Smith
A riddle, on the letter E / George Gordon, Lord Byron
Mouse's nest / John Clare
I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth
Victorian period, 1837-1901. The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Snow-flakes / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The haunted palace / Edgar Allan Poe
The dismantled ship / Walt Whitman
Street lanterns / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson
Cobwebs / Christina Georgina Rossetti
The railway train / Emily Dickinson.
Modern period, 1900-1945. The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
The love tree / Countee Cullen
Fan-piece for Her Imperial Lord / Ezra Pound
The cat and the moon / William Butler Yeats
Stars / Langston Hughes
A cloud shadow / Robert Frost
Driftwood / Witter Bynner
Boxes and bags / Carl Sandburg
City trees / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Postmodern period, 1945-present. Manhole covers / Karl Shapiro
Mushrooms / Sylvia Plath
Lament, for Cocoa / John Updike
i thank You God for most this amazing / e.e. cummings
The cat / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Contemporary. Ode to a stamp album / Pablo Neruda
The summer day / Mary Oliver
A birthday card / Ted Kooser
The death of the hat / Billy Collins
Flash cards / Rita Dove
Famous / Naomi Shihab Nye.