Ezra Pound

"A Girl": http://www.poetry-archive.com/p/a_girl.html

"The Bath-tub": http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/23692-Ezra-Pound-The-Bath-Tub

"Canto I": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15426

"The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15425

"In A Station of the Metro": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15421

Shel Silverstein

"If the World was Crazy": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20542

"Where the Sidewalk Ends": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20541

"A Boy Named Sue": http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Shel-Silverstein/13479

(also sung by Johnny Cash)

"Whatif": http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Shel-Silverstein/13488

"Messy Room": http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Shel-Silverstein/13484

Robert Hayden

"Soledad": (audio) http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15733

(text) http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/8373-Robert-Hayden-Soledad

"Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=178596

"The Whipping": http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/8790-Robert-Hayden-The-Whipping

"Monet's Waterlilies" : http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/14207-Robert-Hayden-Monet-s-Waterlilies

Monet's Waterlilies

Gwendolyn Brooks

"We Real Cool": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433

"The Mother": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15829

"The Bean Eaters": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15913

"A Song in the Front Yard": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172082

"the vacant lot": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172085

William Wordsworth

"We are Seven": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16085

"My Heart Leaps Up": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16084

"Perfect Woman": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19917

"The Kitten and the Falling Leaves": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19966

Edgar Allen Poe

“To My Mother”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19662

“Alone”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16629

“A Dream within a Dream”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16092

“Annabel Lee”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16055

“Spirits of the Dead”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19998

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"God's World": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19963

"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15420

"Recuerdo": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20382

Langston Hughes

"Let America be America Again": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609

"Life is Fine": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15611

"Theme for English B": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15614

"Dream Variations": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15610

e.e. cummings

"maggie and milly and molly and may": http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15406

"buffalo bill's": http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15399

"tumbling hair": http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/351

"who knows if the moon's": http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/361

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 17: http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/017.html

Sonnet 18: http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/018.html

Sonnet 57: http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/057.html

Sonnet 130: http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/130.html

Carl Sandburg

"Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15265

"Wilderness": http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20732

"Dream Girl": http://carl-sandburg.com/dream_girl.htm

"Who Am I?": http://carl-sandburg.com/who_am_i.htm

Alice Walker

"Expect Nothing": http://www.afropoets.net/alicewalker5.html

"Gray": http://www.afropoets.net/alicewalker8.html

"I Said to Poetry" : http://www.afropoets.net/alicewalker7.html

"We Alone": http://www.afropoets.net/alicewalker9.html

Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for death”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395

“Fame is a fickle food” : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15396

“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15392

“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19039

Maya Angelou

"Alone" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15624

"Still I Rise" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623

"Phenomenal Woman" : http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/phenomenal-woman/

"The Rock Cries Out to Us Today" (Inaugural Poem) : http://poetry.eserver.org/angelou.html

Robert Frost

"Mending Wall" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15719

"After Apple Picking" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19975

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20519

Nikki Giovanni

Below are the links to the Nikki Giovanni poems

“My First Memory (of Librarians)”: http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19505

"Possum Crossing" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16548

"Quilts" : http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16891