1 Star-Spangled Banner (Excerpt) / Francis Scott Key 17 --
2 American Flag (5th grader, 2002) / Rebecca Godfrey 17 --
3 I Hear America Singing / Walt Whitman 18 --
4 America the Beautiful (Excerpt) / Katherine Lee Bates 19 --
5 America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) (Excerpt) / Samuel F. Smith 20 --
6 Old man... / Salli Benedict 20 --
7 Red, White, and Blue (5th grader, 2001) / Devin F. Smith 21 --
8 On Their Appointed Rounds (Inscription on the Main Post Office, New York City) 21 --
9 Lincoln Monument: Washington / Langston Hughes 22 --
10 Lift Every Voice and Sing (Excerpt) / James Weldon Johnson 22 --
11 Passing Through Albuquerque / John Balaban 23 --
12 Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 24 --
13 Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier 27 --
14 Hymn (Dedication of the Concord Monument) / Ralph Waldo Emerson 28 --
15 New Colossus / Emma Lazarus 29 --
16 Statue of Liberty (5th grader, 2001) / Lauren Strainge 29 --
17 We Are a Living People / Lori Wautier 30 --
18 Oriflamme / Jessie Fauset 31 --
19 Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden 32 --
20 Women Who Went to the Field / Clara Barton 33 --
Poems About the Living World 34 --
21 Adowe / Maurice Kenny 34 --
22 April Rain Song / Langston Hughes 35 --
23 Watching Wolves / Susan Moger 35 --
24 Winter Poem / Nikki Giovanni 35 --
25 Little Turtle / Vachel Lindsay 36 --
26 Cow / Robert Louis Stevenson 36 --
27 Look at Six Eggs / Carl Sandburg 37 --
28 A White Hen Sitting / Christina Rossetti 37 --
29 Give Me the Splendid, Silent Sun (Excerpt) / Walt Whitman 37 --
30 Bare Feet and Dog / Susan Moger 38 --
31 Panda Dreams / Susan Moger 38 --
32 Eagle / Lord Tennyson Alfred 39 --
33 Fireflies / Quincy Troupe 39 --
34 Insects (5th grader, 2002) / Sam DiTonno 40 --
35 Butterfly / Cathy Bamji 40 --
36 White Butterflies / Algernon Charles Swinburne 41 --
37 Squirrel Hill / Susan Moger 41 --
38 Tiger (5th grader, 2002) / Andi Overbaugh 42 --
39 Schools of Whales / Susan Moger 42 --
40 Whales (5th grader, 2003) / Tasheena Stevens 42 --
41 Last Leaf / Shirley Johannesen Levine 43 --
42 Birthright / Eiluned Lewis 44 --
43 Nubian Goats (5th grader, 2003) / Samantha Lundstrom 44 --
44 Birches / Robert Frost 45 --
45 Chamber Music XXXV / James Joyce 47 --
46 On the Mississippi / Hamlin Garland 47 --
47 Cataract at Lodore (Excerpt) / Robert Southey 48 --
48 Wild Swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats 50 --
49 Improved Farm Land / Carl Sandburg 51 --
50 How One Winter Came in the Lake Region / Wilfred Campbell 52 --
51 Sledding (5th grader, 2001) / Spencer Bassette 53 --
52 Fog / Carl Sandburg 53 --
53 Who Has Seen the Wind? / Christina Rossetti 54 --
54 Wind / Rachel Moger-Reischer 54 --
55 Storm / Sara Coleridge 55 --
56 Daffadowndilly / Christina Rossetti 55 --
57 Wrens and Robins in the Hedge / Christina Rossetti 56 --
58 On the Grassy Banks / Christina Rossetti 56 --
59 April / Sara Teasdale 56 --
60 Song (Excerpt) / Amy Lowell 57 --
61 When I Heard the Learned Astronomer / Walt Whitman 57 --
62 Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep / Carl Sandburg 58 --
63 Horses of the Sea / Christina Rossetti 58 --
64 Scents of the Ocean (5th grader, 2002) / Christina Baker 59 --
65 I Walked to the Beach (5th grader, 2002) / Samantha Seney 59 --
66 Spring grass is peaceful (4th grader, 2000) / Caitlin Peterson 60 --
67 Fall is bright yellow red (4th grader, 2000) / Josh Kleinhans 60 --
68 Two geese flying fast (5th grader, 2001) / Angela Pomykaj 60 --
69 This is not the moon / Ariwara No Narihira 60 --
70 A wild sea / Basho 61 --
71 Cicada sings / Anonymous 61 --
72 Bears eating bacon (5th grader, 2002) / Erica Bilodeau 61 --
73 Heavy humid air (5th grader, 2003) / Nathaniel Peterson 61 --
74 Joyful, bright blue sky (5th grader, 2002) / Paige Allen 61 --
75 A violet bloomed / Rachel Moger-Reischer 61 --
Poems About People, Places, and Things 62 --
76 I'm Nobody! Who Are You? / Emily Dickinson 62 --
77 A Thought / Rachel Moger-Reischer 62 --
78 My Quilt (5th grader, 2001) / Lauren Strainge 63 --
79 Soup / Carl Sandburg 64 --
80 Evening in Margaret's Kitchen / Susan Moger 64 --
81 You...and Your Dad (age 11, 2004) / Katie Ferman 65 --
82 To My Dear and Loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet 66 --
83 Upon Julia's Clothes / Robert Herrick 66 --
84 Jump (4th grader, 2000) / Caitlin Peterson 67 --
85 Song for the Last Unicorn / Carol Peck 68 --
86 Waiting for You / Susan Moger 68 --
87 Feelings Alive / Carol Peck 69 --
88 Brother in Hospital (5th grader, 2001) / Vanessa Cooke 70 --
89 Aunts & Uncles / Susan Moger 70 --
90 Pine Bedding (5th grader, 2003) / Whitney Fairchild 71 --
91 My Valentine / Robert Louis Stevenson 72 --
92 First Time Anyone Called You My Boyfriend / Susan Moger 72 --
93 I Am Cherry Alive / Delmore Schwartz 73 --
94 Sea Shell / Amy Lowell 74 --
95 September / Lucille Clifton 74 --
96 Morning Memory (5th grader, 2001) / Ubec Aymat 74 --
97 How Many Ways to Say Rhode Island (5th grader, 2001) / Michaela Palmer 75 --
98 Song for a Little House / Christopher Morley 76 --
99 Schools / Susan Moger 76 --
100 Broadway / Sara Teasdale 77 --
101 City / Langston Hughes 77 --
102 Home Thoughts, from Abroad / Robert Browning 78 --
103 Roadways (Excerpt) / John Masefield 79 --
104 Rhyme of the Rail (Excerpt) / John Godfrey Saxe 79 --
105 Railway Train / Emily Dickinson 80 --
106 If I Were a Pony / Navajo Students at Tohatchi School, New Mexico 80 --
107 Grandma Mountain (5th grader, 2002) / Abby Brooking 81 --
108 A Satisfactory Way to Rule the World / Rachel Moger-Reischer 81 --
109 Great Figure / William Carlos Williams 82 --
110 Sea Slant / Carl Sandburg 82 --
111 Good Night / Carl Sandburg 83 --
112 Our Clever Hands / Carol Peck 83 --
113 Piano Lessons (Excerpt) / Billy Collins 84 --
114 Music (5th grader, 2001) / Caitlin Mahar 84 --
115 Shirt / Carl Sandburg 85 --
116 With an Encyclopedia You Can / Susan Moger 85 --
117 Road Not Taken / Robert Frost 86 --
118 Reading an Old Cookbook / Susan Moger 87 --
119 On Laughter / Rachel Moger-Reischer 87 --
120 How Many Ways to Say Cooking (5th grader, 2001) / Kiki Camerota 88 --
121 Fried Dough (5th grader, 2003) / Taylor Sheldon 88 --
122 Contrast / Rachel Moger-Reischer 89 --
123 Problems, Problems! / Shirley Johannesen Levine 89 --
124 In a Breath / Rachel Moger-Reischer 90 --
Poems About Poetry and Words 91 --
125 Spelling Bee / David McCord 91 --
126 Spelling Challenge / Susan Moger 91 --
127 Poet Speaks / John Henrik Clarke 92 --
128 Without a Net / Susan Moger 92 --
129 AEIOU / Susan Moger 92 --
130 Long Ago / Susan Moger 93 --
131 Primer Lesson / Carl Sandburg 93 --
132 Playful Words / Shirley Johannesen Levine 93 --
133 Just-Right Vocabulary Pie / Susan Moger 94 --
134 Hyperbole / Roy Moger-Reischer 94 --
135 Synonyms / Susan Moger 95 --
136 Onomatopoeia / Roy Moger-Reischer 95 --
Poems of Beauty and Magic 96 --
137 Silver / Walter de la Mare 96 --
138 Velvet Shoes / Elinor Wylie 97 --
139 Children's Hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 98 --
140 Sea Fever (Excerpt) / John Masefield 99 --
141 Fairy Land IV / William Shakespeare 99 --
142 Charlotte / Susan Moger 100 --
143 A Birthday Poem / Ted Kooser 100 --
144 Chamber Music V / James Joyce 101 --
145 Crows / Patricia Moger Varshavtchik 101 --
146 Friday Night at Miss Farida's Piano Lesson (age 8, 2003) / Tae Kathleen Keller 102 --
147 Song of Wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats 103 --
148 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud / William Wordsworth 104 --
149 Bells / Edgar Allan Poe 105 --
150 Blackberry Eating / Galway Kinnell 108 --
151 Bells of Shandon (Excerpt) / Francis Mahony 109 --
152 Moon / Robert Bly 109 --
153 We Are All Riders to the Sea / Susan Moger 110 --
154 Winter Blue (5th grader, 2002) / Nate Dingman 110 --
155 Lime Green (5th grader, 2002) / Sarah Heitzman 110 --
156 Yellow (5th grader, 2002) / Dylan Sorenson 111 --
157 Color Yellow (5th grader, 2001) / Brendan Nixon 111 --
158 Bed in Summer / Robert Louis Stevenson 112 --
159 At the Sea-side / Robert Louis Stevenson 112 --
160 My Shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson 113 --
161 Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson 113 --
162 Silly Supper Farm / Susan Moger 114 --
163 When Fishes Set Umbrellas Up / Christina Rossetti 114 --
164 A Nautical Ballad (Excerpt) / Charles Edward Carryl 115 --
165 Squirrel / Anonymous 116 --
166 Mary's Lamb (Excerpt) / Sara Josepha Hale 116 --
167 Owl and the Pussy-Cat / Edward Lear 117 --
168 Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll 118 --
169 Lobster-Quadrille / Lewis Carroll 119 --
170 Billy Button / Anonymous 120 --
171 Fuzzy Wuzzy / Anonymous 120 --
172 British Warm / Roy Moger-Reischer 120 --
173 Casey at the Bat / Ernest L. Thayer 121 --
174 How Many Seconds? / Christina Rossetti 123 --
175 Road Trip / Susan Moger 123 --
176 Invitation / Susan Moger 123 --
177 Beautiful Soup / Lewis Carroll 124 --
178 A Fly and a Flea in a Flue / Anonymous 124 --
179 Three Plum Buns / Christina Rossetti 125 --
180 Look and See / Susan Moger 125 --
181 Drake / Roy Moger-Reischer 125 --
182 Up the Hill / Susan Moger 126 --
183 Mix a Pancake / Christina Rossetti 126 --
184 Fairies (Excerpt) / William Allingham 127 --
185 Jumblies (Excerpt) / Edward Lear 127 --
186 Night Wind / Eugene Field 128.
