| 1854 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| 1855 | The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 1855 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| 1859 | Idylls of the King | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| 1861 | Paul Revere's Ride | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| 1870 | The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | Edward Lear |
| 1871 | Jabberwocky | Lewis Carroll |
| 1888 | Casey at the Bat | Ernest Lawrence Thayer |
| 1913 | Trees | Joyce Kilmer |
| 1915 | Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| 1915 | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | T.S. Eliot |
| 1916 | Chicago Poems | Carl Sandburg |
| 1922 | The Waste Land | T.S. Eliot |
| 1956 | Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
