Poems and speeches
- Alighieri, Dante Excerpt from Canto I of Inferno
- Apollinaire, Guillaume Le dromadaire
- Atxaga, Bernardo Trikuarena (The Hedgehog)
- Bashō 芭蕉 Old Pond 古池
- Belloc, Hilaire The vulture
- Blake, William A poison tree
- Brooke, Rupert Heaven
- Carême, Maurice Le chat et le soleil
- Carroll, Lewis Jabberwocky
- Carryl, Guy W. The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven
- Cén Sēn 岑参 Qì Zhōng Zuò 碛中作 (Lines Written in the Desert)
- Chaucer, Geoffrey Excerpt from the General Prologue - The Canterbury Tales
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan
- Ciardi, John About the teeth of sharks
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius In Catilinam Oratio Prima
- Cuī hù 崔护 Tí dūchéng nán zhuāng 题都城南庄 (The Village South of the Capital)
- D'Aquin, Saint Thomas Prière de Saint Thomas D’Aquin avant l’étude
- de Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris La guenon, le singe et la noix
- de La Fontaine, Jean Le corbeau et le renard
- de La Fontaine, Jean Le lion et le rat
- de Morgan, Augustus The siphonaptera
- du Bellay, Joachim Sonnet XXXI Heureux qui, comme Ulysse
- du Bellay, Joachim Comme le champ semé
- Dù Fǔ 杜甫 Chūn wàng 春望
- Farjeon, Eleanor & Herbert Henry VIII
- Fisher, Aileen Valentines
- Florian, Douglas The bat
- Frost, Robert Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
- Fyleman, Rose Singing time
- Guillevic, Eugène Le glyptodon
- Heaney, Seamus Lightenings viii
- Hugo, Victor Extrait de l'Expiation
- Hugo, Victor Extrait de À propos d'Horace
- Khayyam, Omar Quatrain The moving finger writes from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Lǐ bái 李白 Jìng yè sī 静夜思 (Thoughts on a Still Night)
- Liǔ Zōngyuán 柳宗元 Jiāng xuě 江雪 (River Snow)
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth The tide rises, the tide falls
- Luò Bīnwáng 骆宾王 Yǒng é 咏鹅 (Singing Geese)
- Magee, John Gillespie High flight
- Masefield, John Edward Sea Fever
- McCrae, John In Flanders fields
- Mearns, Hughes Excerpt from The little man who wasn't there ("Antigonish")
- Mèng Hàorán 孟浩然 Chūn xiăo 春晓 (Spring Dawn)
- Mèng Jiāo 孟郊 Yóuzǐ Yín 游子吟 (Song of the Wanderer)
- Moore, Clement Clarke A visit from St. Nicholas
- Nash, Ogden Celery
- Nelligan, Émile Soir d'hiver
- Owen, Wilfred Arms and the Boy
- Panard, Charles-François L'indiscrétion
- Prévert, Jacques Être ange c’est étrange
- Prévert, Jacques Page d'écriture
- Pushkin, Alexander Пушкин, Александр Motion Движение
- Qián Hètān 钱鹤滩 Míngrì gē 明日歌 (Song of Tomorrow)
- Rands, William Brighty Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore
- Rosetti, Christina Who has seen the wind?
- Rostand, Edmond La tirade du nez, acte I scène IV, Cyrano de Bergerac
- Roy, Claude Bestiaire du coquillage
- Sandburg, Carl Fog
- Shakespeare, William Sonnet XXIX When in disgrace with fortune
- Shakespeare, William Excerpt from King Richard's speech, Act III Sc. 2, The tragedy of King Richard the Second
- Shakespeare, William Excerpt from Macbeth's soliloquy, Act II Sc. 1, Macbeth
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe Ozymandias
- Stevenson, Robert Louis Whole duty of children
- Stevenson, Robert Louis Requiem
- Stodart, M.A. One thing at a time
- Szymborska, Wislawa In praise of dreams
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord The Eagle
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord Excerpt from The Coming of Arthur
- Unknown author Zhù nǐ hé xīnláng 祝你和新郎 (Chinese wedding blessings)
- Unknown author Chì lè gē 敕勒歌 (Song of the Chì Lè Prairie)
- Wáng Wéi 王维 Zá Shī 杂诗 (Incidental poem)
- Wáng Yīnglín 王应麟 Sān zì jīng 三字经 #1 and #2
- Wáng Zhīhuàn 王 之 涣 Dēng guàn què lóu 登鸛雀樓 (Ascending the Stork Tower)
- Whitman, Walt A noiseless patient spider
- Yeats, William Butler Sailing to Byzantium (and analysis)