| "A jug of wine, a loaf of bread - and thou beside me singing in the wilderness" | The Rubáiyát |
| "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" | The Divine Comedy |
| "All in the valley of death rode the six hundred" | The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| "All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe" | Jabberwocky |
| "And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me" | Annabel Lee |
| "April is the cruelest month" | The Waste Land |
| "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| "Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pré" | Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie |
| "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" | Paradise Lost |
| "Beware the jubjub bird, and shun the frumious bandersnatch" | Jabberwocky |
| "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water" | The Song of Hiawatha |
| "Did he who made the lamb make thee?" | The Tyger |
| "Dined on mince and slices of quince which they ate with a runcible spoon" | The Owl and the Pussy-Cat |
| "Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair" | The Rape of the Lock |
| "From the water-fall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water" | The Song of Hiawatha |
| "Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon" | The Owl and the Pussy-Cat |
| "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" | Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| "Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat" | Chicago Poems |
| "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of the night" | The Bells |
| "I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts" | The Aeneid |
| "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" | Howl |
| "I sing of arms and the man, he who, exiled by fate, first came from the coast of Troy to Italy" | The Aeneid |
| "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree" | Trees |
| "I was a child and she was a child, in this kingdom by the sea" | Annabel Lee |
| "In her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea" | Annabel Lee |
| "In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo" | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| "Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung" | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day" | Casey at the Bat |
| "It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea" | Annabel Lee |
| "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride..." | Paul Revere's Ride |
