• William Wordsworth
  Intimations of Immorality From Recollections of Early Childhood
  Tintern Abbey

• Unattributed
  Be Gentle
  Is Anyone There?

• William Butler Yeats
  The Lake Isle of Innisfree

• Chief Yellow Lark
  O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds, hear me....

• Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  Our Mothers Depart

• Adam Zagajewski
  The Self

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• A Just Anger
  Marge Piercy

• "A son sees a father struggling..."
  Frank Hall

• A Song of the Rolling Earth
  Walt Whitman

• Adam's Complaint
  Nicholas Biel

• After Apple Picking
  Robert Frost

• Along the Road
  Robert Browning Hamilton

• Amazing Grace
  John Newton

• An Old Man
  Constantine Cavafy

• Annabelle Lee
  Edgar Allen Poe

• Auguries of Innocence
  William Blake

• The Avowal
  Denise Levertov

• Be Gentle
  Author Unknown

• Belonging
  John O’Donohue

• Birches
  Robert Frost

• The Bird On This Body Tree
  Kabir

• A Brave and Startling Truth
  Maya Angelou

• The Bugler, Whoever He Is (Memorial Day, 1964)
  John Alexander Allen

• Buirnt Norton (from The Four Quartets)
  T.S. Eliot

• Burnt Kabob
  Rumi

• By Blue Ontario's Shore
  Walt Whitman

• The Cab Ride
  Kent Nerburn

• Callings
  Nancy Shaffer

• Choose Something Like a Star
  Robert Frost

• Chrysalis Diary
  Paul Fleischman

• The Circle of Life
  Elton John and Tim Rice

• Closing Words
  Stephen Grellet (attributed)

• Cold Turkey
  Kurt Vonnegut

• Come, Come whoever you are
  Rumi

• Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it....
  Miller Williams
  from "The Ways We Touch"

• Conscientious Objector
  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Consolation
  Billy Collins

• Councils
  Marge Piercy

• A Credo For My Relationships With Others
  Thomas Gordon

• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
  Walt Whitman

• Death Is Nothing At All
  Henry Scott Holland

• The Death of the Hired Man
  Robert Frost

• Deepest Remains
  Lexi Rudnitsky

• Desiderata
  Max Ehrmann

• "The Divinity School Address"
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Do not go gentle into that good night...
  Dylan Thomas

• Do not stand at my grave and weep
  Native American Poem

• The Duck
  Donald Babcock

• East Coker
  T.S. Eliot

• The Economics of Grace
  Phil Porter

• Epitaph
  Merritt Malloy

• Epitaph to a Friend
  Robert Burns

• Essay on Man
  Alexander Pope

• Every Day
  Caroline Joy Adams

• Everything is Waiting For You
  David Whyte

• Exit
  Edwin Arlington Robinson

• Fault Line
  Robert R. Walsh

• Fern Hill
  Dylan Thomas

• Fire-logs
  Carl Sandburg

• First Breath Last Breath
  Antler

• First Lesson
  Philip Booth

• Forgive, O Lord
  Robert Frost

• Freedom Is A Habit
  Carl Sandburg

• From out of the glory of the morning skies
  Sophia Lyon Fahs

• The Garden of Proserpine
  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• "The Gift"
  Anne Scott

• A Girl's Garden
  Robert Frost

• Go out one clear starlit night
  G. I. Gurdjieff

• God Climbed a Mountain
  Cynthia Rylant

• from God it came. It is Deity
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• God Needs Antonio
  George Eliot   (1819 - 1880)

• Going To Walden
  Mary Oliver

• A Golden Christmas
  Frank Hall

• Good-bye Proud World
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Great religions are the Ships
  Hafiz

• The Guest House
  Rumi

• Handwoven
  Liz James

• Happiness
  Carl Sandburg

• The Harvest
  Alice C. Henderson

• He who binds to himself a joy
  William Blake

• The Hollow Men
  T. S. Eliot

• A Homecoming
  Wendell Berry

• Hope is the thing with feathers
  Emily Dickinson

• i am a little church
  e e cummings

• I Am America
  Frank Hall

• I Am Running into a New Year
  Lucille Clifton

• I Hear America Singing
  Walt Whitman

• I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
  Walt Whitman

• I stood at the edge of insanity
  Rumi

• i thank You God for most this amazingday
  e e cummings

• I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
  Dawna Markova

• Ida
  Nancy Pearce

• if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
  e e cummings

• I'm Nobody! Who are you?
  Emily Dickinson

• I’m sure in olden Biblical days
  Alvin Solomon

• If I can stop one Heart from breaking...
  Emily Dickinson

• In Blackwater Woods
  Mary Oliver

• "Information Please"
  Paul Villard

• Inscription on ancient grave
  Ai Khanoum

• Intimations of Immorality From Recollections of Early Childhood
  William Wordsworth

• Invictus
  William Ernest Henley

• The Invitation
  Oriah Mountain Dreamer

• The Invocation to Kali
  May Sarton

• Is Anyone There?
  Author Unknown

• Ithaca
  Constantine Cavafy

• The Journey
  Mary Oliver

• The Journey of the Magi
  T.S. Eliot

• Keeping Quiet
  Pablo Neruda

• Kindness in words creates confidence.
  Lao Tzu

• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  William Butler Yeats

• Lament to the Spirit of War
  Enheduanna

• Lamplighter
  Stanley Kunitz

• The Lanyard
  Billy Collins

• Last night, as I was sleeping
  Antonio Machado

• The Laws of Life and Death
  John Burroughs

• The Layers
  Stanley Kunitz

• Lent
  Lynn Ungar

• "Letter to a Friend"
  Fra Giovanni

• Little Gidding (from The Four Quartets)
  T.S. Eliot

• An excerpt from The Little Prince
  Antoine de Saint Exupery

• little tree
  e e cummings

• Love Abides
  Barbara Pescan

• Love After Love
  Derek Walcott

• Love Dogs
  Rumi

• love is a place
  e e cummings

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  T.S. Eliot

• The Low Road
  Marge Piercy

• Mag
  Carl Sandburg

• maggie and millie and molly and may
  e e cummings

• Making Peace
  Denise Levertov

• Making the House Ready for the Lord
  Mary Oliver

• excerpts from "The Measure of My Days"
  Florida Scott-Maxwell

• Mending Wall
  Robert Frost

• Messenger
  Mary Oliver

• Music
  Anne Porter

• My Name
  Mark Strand

• My Sanctuary
  Meng Shu Ch'ing
  Chinese, Ming Dynasty, 1368 - 1643

• Natural History
  E.B. White

• The Nicest Gifts I Ever Got
  Clarke Dewey Wells

• From His Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
  Albert Camus
  Nobel Prize for Literature, December 10, 1957

• A Note Left on the Door
  Mary Oliver

• O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds, hear me....
  Chief Yellow Lark

• O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie
  Philip Appleman

• O Life that makest all things new
  Samuel Longfellow

• O Taste and See
  Denise Levertov

• Of Death
  Kahlil Gibran

• Old Friends
  Paul Simon

• On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate (Psalm 145)
  Mary Oliver

• One's Self I Sing
  Walt Whitman

• Onward, Moderate Christian Soldiers
  John C. Danforth

• Opening Words
  We come together this morning in acknowledgement of our need of one another.
  Rev. Cecil Williams

• Otherwise
  Jane Kenyon

• Out beyond ideas...
  Rumi

• Out of the Stars
  Robert Weston

• Our Mothers Depart
  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• The Over-Soul
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Pair
  J. Roger Rowell

• The Pasture
  Robert Frost

• Excerpts from The People, Yes
  Carl Sandburg

• A Fatherhood excerpt from The People, Yes
  Carl Sandburg

• The people will live on... excerpt from The People, Yes
  Carl Sandburg

• The Place I Want to Get Back To
  Mary Oliver

• A Poem for Emily
  Miller Williams

• Poem for Flora
  Nikki Giovanni

• The Portrait
  Stanley Kunitz

• Praise Song for the Day
  Elizabeth Alexander

• Prayer
  Mary Oliver

• A Prayer
  May Sarton

• Prayer for Peace
  Lao Tzu

• Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
  St. Francis of Assisi

• Prayers of Steel
  Carl Sandburg

• Praying
  Mary Oliver

• Primer Lesson
  Carl Sandburg

• Putting In The Seed
  Robert Frost

• The Question
  A.J. Gundell

• Rabbi Ben Ezra
  Robert Browning

• rain or hail
  e e cummings

• The Raven
  Edgar Allan Poe

• from The Prophet - Religion
  Kahlil Gibran

• Revelation
  Robert Frost

• Reverse Living
  Norman Glass

• The Road Not Taken
  Robert Frost

• The Rose
  Amanda McBroom

• The Round
  Stanley Kunitz

• Salvation
  Lynn Ungar

• Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
  Hayden Carruth

• Sea-Fever
  John Masefield

• The Self
  Adam Zagajewski

• Self-Portrait
  David Whyte

• Self-Reliance
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Self-Reliance (poem)
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Serenity Prayer
  Reinhold Niebuhr

• The Seven Of Pentacles
  Marge Piercy

• Silent friend of many distances, feel
  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Simone Weil in Assissi
  Edward Hirsch

• Simple Gifts
  Joseph Bravkett, Jr.

• Sleep in Summer
  Kerry Hardie

• The small plot of ground...
  Alla Renee Bozarth

• Smile
  Words by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, Music by Charlie Chaplin

• The Snakes of September
  Stanley Kunitz

• The Snow Drifts Down
  Robert Weston

• Soaking Up Sun
  Tom Hennen

• Some couldn't stand me...
  Ruth Codier

• Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
  Emily Dickinson

• Sometimes
  David Whyte

• A Song For Occupations
  Walt Whitman

• Song of Myself
  Walt Whitman

• Song of the Open Road
  Walt Whitman

• The Source of Joy
  Rumi

• Spirit of Lfe
  Carolyn McDade

• Stars, Songs, Faces
  Carl Sandburg

• Stopping along the Way
  David Wagoner

• Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
  Robert Frost

• The Summer Day
  Mary Oliver

• Summons
  Robert Francis

• The Sunset
  Black Elk

• from the Tao Te Ching; chapter 8
  Lao Tzu

• from the Tao Te Ching; chapter 23
  Lao Tzu

• from the Tao Te Ching; chapter 33
  Lao Tzu

• from the Tao Te Ching; chapter 49
  Lao Tzu

• A Tear and a Smile
  Kahlil Gibran

• Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
  Emily Dickinson

• That person is a success who...
  Bessie Anderson Stanley

• The Swan
  Mary Oliver

• The Successful Life
  Ralph Waldo Emerson (attributed)

• The Teacher
  Billy Collins

• There Was A Child Went Forth
  Walt Whitman

• They Crossed a Street Together
  Jim Klobuchar

• They Softly Walk
  Hugh Robert Orr

• Henry David Thoreau's Journal - March 15, 1852
  Henry David Thoreau

• Henry David Thoreau's Journal - October 20, 1856
  Henry David Thoreau

• Those Winter Days
  Robert Hayden

• Time is too slow for those who wait
  Henry Van Dyje

• Tintern Abbey
  William Wordsworth

• from To a Dancing God
  Sam Keen

• To A Mouse
  Robert Burns

• To be of use
  Marge Piercy

• “To the Bone: Reflections in Black and White"
  William Ayers

• Transcendental Etude
  Adrienne Rich

• Trees
  Joyce Kilmer

• True story, Word of Honor
  Kurt Vonnegut

• Truth
  Leonard Nathan

• Two Tramps in Mud Time
  Robert Frost

• Ulysses
  Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Unitarian Christianity
  William Ellery Channing

• Untitled - dying is fine)but Death
  e e cummings

• Untitled
  Mark Belletini

• Use the Geometry
  Mirabai

• Valentine for Ernest Mann
  Naomi Shihab Nye

• from The Velveteen Rabbit
  Margery Williams

• A Visit From St. Nick
  Clement Moore

• Wage Peace
  Judyth Hill

• Waiting for the Barbarians
  Constantine Cavafy

• Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal
  Naomi Shihab Nye

• We grow accustomed to the Dark
  Emily Dickinson

• Web
  Denise Levertov

• Wedding Poem
  Frank Hall

• Welcome Morning
  Anne Sexton

• when faces called flowers float out of the ground
  e e cummings

• When I am Among the Trees
  Mary Oliver

• When I Die
  Anonymous

• When I'm Gone
  Mrs. Lyman Hancock

• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
  Walt Whitman

• Where is the Dream Today?
  Rev. Peter Powell

• White Heron
  John Ciardi
  from "Marry Me", Rutgers University Press, 1958

• Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?
  Pablo Neruda
  

• Why it was wonderful
  Archibald MacLeish
  

• Wild Geese
  Mary Oliver
  

• Wind
  Ryan Leddy
  

• An excerpt from Windy City
  Carl Sandburg

• Winter
  Greta Crosby

• Winter
  Frank Hall

• Winter Meditation
  Denise Levertov

• With Passion
  Rumi

• With Thanks to the Field Sparrow, Whose Voice is so Delicate and Humble
  Mary Oliver

• With That Moon Language
  Hafiz

• Witness
  Denise Levertov

• Excerpts from “A Witness to the Truth,” the eulogy for The Rev. James Reeb
  Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Woodstock
  Joni Mitchell

• A Word on Statistics
  Wislawa Szymborska

• Work
  Charles Lamb

• The World As I See It
  Albert Einstein

• You need not leave your room
  Franz Kafka

• You Were Made For This
  Clarissa Pinkola Estes