A

Inaugural Poem by Maya Angelou

B

How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Metta Sutta by Traditional Buddhist

C

Analects by Confucius (with the kind permission of Paul Brians )
Letter from Deepak on Love by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
My Sweet Old Etcetera by E.E. Cummings
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Kubla Khan or, a Vision In a Dream: A Fragment (1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I

Theme and Variations by David Ignatow

J

In Lak'ech Ala K'in - the Living Code of the Heart by Aluna Joy Yaxkin
Japanese Creation Myth by Traditional

L

Recreation by Audre Lorde
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Snow-flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

general

The Bhagavad-Geeta (Chapters I - VI) by Dr. Ramanand Prasad (Translator)
The Bhagavad-Geeta (Chapters VII - XII) by Dr. Ramanand Prasad (Translator)
The Bhagavad-Geeta (Chapters XIII - XVIII) by Dr. Ramanand Prasad (Translator)
African Proverbs from the 19th Century by edited by Paul Brians, et al.
The Cab Ride by Kent Nerburn

E

The Emancipation of Women by Maria Eugenia Echenique
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Z

Don't allow the lucid moment to dissolve by Adam Zagajewski

D

After Great Pain by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Wild nights--wild nights! by Emily Dickinson
Sea Poppies by Hilda Doolittle
Go and catch a falling star by John Donne

F

After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Q

Faint Heart's Lament by Wilder Dwight Quint

H

Existence and Being by Martin Heidegger
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick

V

Creation Hymn by Rig Veda
Hymn to Indra, God of Sky and God of War by Rig Veda
Hymn to Purusa by Rig Veda
To Agni, God of Fire by Rig Veda
Response to Welcome At The World's Parliament of Religions by Vivekananda

K

The Hopi Story by Dan Katchongva
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
The Cab Ride by Kent Nerburn
Cocoon by Nikos Kazantzakis
The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling

M

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
20 Ways to Find, Sustain, and Share Happiness by Megan R. McDonough
Inaugural Address by Nelson Mandela
Mohawk Prophesy of the Seventh Generation by Traditional

O

Ode by Arthur O`Shaunessy

R

As Once the Winged Energy of Delight by Rainier Maria Rilke
Autumn by Rainier Maria Rilke
My Pappa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke

S

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare

T

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu
Once There Was a King by Rabindranath Tagore

W

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

X

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

Y

Yokut Creation Myth by unknown

G

America by Allen Ginsberg
Howl by Allen Ginsberg

N

Pretty Halcyon Days by Ogden Nash

P

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato
The Death of Socrates by Plato
Daddy by Sylvia Plath

U

On the Birth of a Child by Louis Untermeyer