101 Great American Poems

Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation’s rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing,” and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables.
Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: “Casey at the Bat,” “Fog,” “The New Colossus,” “Chicago,” “I, Too, Sing America,” “O Captain! My Captain!,” “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “The Road Not Taken,” “The Raven,” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” “Mending Wall,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.”

Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.

Focusing on popular verse from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this treasury of great American poems offers a taste of the nation’s rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing,” and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn,” as well as poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and many other notables.
Chosen by the non-profit organization American Poetry & Literacy Project, these much-loved verses include 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: “Casey at the Bat,” “Fog,” “The New Colossus,” “Chicago,” “I, Too, Sing America,” “O Captain! My Captain!,” “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “The Road Not Taken,” “The Raven,” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” “Mending Wall,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.”

Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Phillis Wheatley
“From To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth”
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn
The Snow-storm
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arrow and the Song
The Builders
The Children’s Hour
The Day is Done
Paul Revere’s Ride
Edgar Allan Poe
Alone
Annabel Lee
The Conqueror Worm
The Raven
To Helen
Abraham Lincoln
My Childhood’s Home I see Again
“Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”
Old Ironsides
Herman Melville
Misgivings
Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing
I Sit and Look Out
Miracles
A Noiseless Patient Spider
O Captain! My Captain!
From Song of Myself
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Frances E. W. Harper
Bury Me in a Free Land
Songs for the People
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death’
Death sets a thing significant’
Hope is the thing with feathers’
I died for beauty’
If I can stop one heart from breaking’
I’m nobody! Who are you?’
My life closed twice before its close’
Success is counted sweetest’
There is no frigate like a book’
This is my letter to the world’
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat
Edgar Lee Masters
The Unknown
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy
Mr. Flood’s Party
Richard Cory
Stephen Crane
I saw a man pursuing the horizon’
War Is Kind
James Weldon Johnson
Sence You Went Away
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Lesson
Sympathy
We Wear the Mask
Gertrude Stein
Susie Asado
Robert Frost
Acquainted with the Night
After Apple-Picking
Birches
Design
Fire and Ice
Mending Wall
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Two Tramps in Mud Time
Carl Sandburg
Chicago
Fog
“I am the People, the Mob”
Vachel Lindsay
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Euclid
The Leaden-Eyed
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Gubbinal
The Reader
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
William Carlos Williams
The Great Figure
The Red Wheelbarrow
This is Just To Say
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
Sara Teasdale
Peace
Ezra Pound
In a station of the Metro
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Robinson Jeffers
“Shine, Perishing Republic”
“Shine, Republic”
Marianne Moore
Poetry
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Claude McKay
After the Winter
If We Must Die
The Tropics in New York
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Recuerdo
Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
The End of the World
E.E. Cummings
since feeling is first
Jean Toomer
Her Lips Are Copper Wire
Reapers
Langston Hughes
Dream Deferred (Harlem)
“I, Too”
Little Old Letter
Mother to Son
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Still Here
Countee Cullen
For Paul Laurence Dunbar
Incident
W.H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen