- Friedrich Hölderlin (1808), The Rhine
- Mahmud Shabistari (1317), A Fancied Dot
- Fernando Pessoa, poem
- Arthur Sze (1998), The Shapes of Leaves
- W. H. Auden (1937), As I Walked Out One Evening
- Walt Whitman (1856), Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Rudyard Kipling (1897), Recessional
- Ijeoma Umebinyuo, poem from Questions For Ada
- Muriel Rukeyser (1974), Islands
- Ron Padgett (2001), Fairy Tale
- William Stafford (1993), Are you Mr. William Stafford?
- William Stafford (1962), At the Aesthetics Meeting
- Nadia de Vries (2017), Technological Sublime
- Shy Watson (2021), WAKING DREAM #2
- Emily Berry (2022), Gods
- Ed Dorn (1964), Daffodil Song
- W. H. Auden (1938), Musee des Beaux Arts
- Margaret Atwood (1970), from The Creatures of the Zodiac
- Alabaster dePlume, Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love
- Kobayashi Issa, owl haiku
- Joseph Ceravolo (1979), Ghosts of Spring
- Ruth Krauss (1970), Poem
- Niina Pollari (2022), from The Frog
- Muriel, Rukeyser (1968), Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars) (1968)
- Richard Brautigan (1967), A Mid-February Sky Dance
- Diane Wakoski (1972), My Little Heart Pops Out, Like Springs
- Joshua Poteat (2015), Tintype
- Joseph Ceravolo (1979), Infinite Thunder
- Michael Ondaatje (1998), Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province We See Hints of the Circus
- Saba (c. 1250), Luxury
- Eileen Myles (2001), And
- Garous Abdolmalekian, Pattern
- Langston Hughes (1951), Harlem
- Richard Wright (1960), Haiku 519
- W. H. Auden (1939), Epitaph on a Tyrant
- Eileen Myles (1997), Road Warrior
- Richard Wright (1960), Haiku 526
- Tom Snarsky (2021), Song
- Ann Kim (2012), A Cold November Night
- Crispin Best (2019), One Good Thing
- Jim Moore (2021), A Young Man, a Stranger, Smiled at Me
- W.S. Merwin (1988), Conqueror
- Li Bai, Waking drunk on a spring day
- Leonard Cohen, My Career
- Cody-Rose Clevidence, from Nectaries
- Jim Harrison, I Believe
- Michael Sheen performing the Welsh poetry of Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood (video)
- Diane di Prima, from Revolutionary Letter #2
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The People
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
- Richard Siken (2015), Turpentine
- Philip Larkin, Aubade
- Laura Gilpin, Two-Headed Calf
- James Galvin, About
- Elaine Kahn (2020), from Somewhere There’s a Nothing I’m a Part Of
- Hubei Qingwa (2016), The Moon’s Professional Life
- Antonio Porchia (1943), The cold
- E.E. Cummings (1931), i sing of Olaf
- Rachelle Toarmino (2020), from I Said Okay
- Robert Creeley (1966), A Prayer
- Anne Carson (2020), O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love
- James Tate (1970), The Immortals
- Henry David Thoreau, I Knew A Man By Site