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| Introduction | |
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| Connections Chart | |
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| Poems for Patriots | |
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| The Star-Spangled Banner (Excerpt) | |
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| The American Flag (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| I Hear America Singing | |
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| America the Beautiful (Excerpt) | |
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| America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) (Excerpt) | |
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| Old man... | |
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| Red, White, and Blue (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| On Their Appointed Rounds (Inscription on the Main Post Office, New York City) | |
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| Lincoln Monument: Washington | |
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| Lift Every Voice and Sing (Excerpt) | |
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| Passing Through Albuquerque | |
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| Paul Revere's Ride | |
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| Barbara Frietchie | |
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| Hymn (Dedication of the Concord Monument) | |
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| The New Colossus | |
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| The Statue of Liberty (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| We Are a Living People | |
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| Oriflamme | |
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| Frederick Douglass | |
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| The Women Who Went to the Field | |
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| Poems About the Living World | |
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| Adowe | |
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| April Rain Song | |
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| Watching Wolves | |
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| Winter Poem | |
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| The Little Turtle | |
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| The Cow | |
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| Look at Six Eggs | |
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| A White Hen Sitting | |
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| Give Me the Splendid, Silent Sun (Excerpt) | |
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| Bare Feet and Dog | |
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| Panda Dreams | |
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| The Eagle | |
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| Fireflies | |
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| Insects (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| The Butterfly | |
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| White Butterflies | |
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| Squirrel Hill | |
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| Tiger (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| Schools of Whales | |
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| Whales (5th grader, 2003) | |
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| Last Leaf | |
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| The Birthright | |
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| Nubian Goats (5th grader, 2003) | |
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| Birches | |
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| Chamber Music XXXV | |
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| On the Mississippi | |
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| The Cataract at Lodore (Excerpt) | |
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| The Wild Swans at Coole | |
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| Improved Farm Land | |
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| How One Winter Came in the Lake Region | |
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| Sledding (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| Fog | |
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| Who Has Seen the Wind? | |
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| The Wind | |
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| The Storm | |
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| Daffadowndilly | |
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| Wrens and Robins in the Hedge | |
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| On the Grassy Banks | |
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| April | |
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| Song (Excerpt) | |
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| When I Heard the Learned Astronomer | |
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| Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep | |
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| The Horses of the Sea | |
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| Scents of the Ocean (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| I Walked to the Beach (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| Haiku | |
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| Spring grass is peaceful (4th grader, 2000) | |
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| Fall is bright yellow red (4th grader, 2000) | |
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| Two geese flying fast (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| This is not the moon | |
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| A wild sea | |
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| The cicada sings | |
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| Bears eating bacon (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| Heavy humid air (5th grader, 2003) | |
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| Joyful, bright blue sky (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| A violet bloomed | |
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| Poems About People, Places, and Things | |
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| I'm Nobody! Who Are You? | |
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| A Thought | |
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| My Quilt (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| Soup | |
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| Evening in Margaret's Kitchen | |
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| You...and Your Dad (age 11, 2004) | |
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| To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
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| Upon Julia's Clothes | |
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| Jump (4th grader, 2000) | |
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| Song for the Last Unicorn | |
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| Waiting for You | |
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| Feelings Alive | |
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| Brother in Hospital (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| Aunts & Uncles | |
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| Pine Bedding (5th grader, 2003) | |
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| My Valentine | |
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| The First Time Anyone Called You My Boyfriend | |
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| I Am Cherry Alive | |
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| Sea Shell | |
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| September | |
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| Morning Memory (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| How Many Ways to Say Rhode Island (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| Song for a Little House | |
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| Schools | |
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| Broadway | |
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| City | |
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| Home Thoughts, from Abroad | |
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| Roadways (Excerpt) | |
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| Rhyme of the Rail (Excerpt) | |
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| The Railway Train | |
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| If I Were a Pony | |
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| Grandma Mountain (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| A Satisfactory Way to Rule the World | |
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| The Great Figure | |
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| Sea Slant | |
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| Good Night | |
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| Our Clever Hands | |
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| Piano Lessons (Excerpt) | |
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| Music (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| Shirt | |
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| With an Encyclopedia You Can | |
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| The Road Not Taken | |
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| Reading an Old Cookbook | |
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| On Laughter | |
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| How Many Ways to Say Cooking (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| Fried Dough (5th grader, 2003) | |
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| Contrast | |
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| Problems, Problems! | |
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| In a Breath | |
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| Poems About Poetry and Words | |
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| Spelling Bee | |
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| Spelling Challenge | |
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| The Poet Speaks | |
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| Without a Net | |
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| AEIOU | |
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| Long Ago | |
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| Primer Lesson | |
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| Playful Words | |
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| Just-Right Vocabulary Pie | |
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| Hyperbole | |
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| Synonyms | |
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| Onomatopoeia | |
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| Poems of Beauty and Magic | |
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| Silver | |
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| Velvet Shoes | |
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| The Children's Hour | |
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| Sea Fever (Excerpt) | |
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| Fairy Land IV | |
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| Charlotte | |
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| A Birthday Poem | |
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| Chamber Music V | |
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| Crows | |
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| Friday Night at Miss Farida's Piano Lesson (age 8, 2003) | |
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| The Song of Wandering Aengus | |
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| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | |
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| The Bells | |
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| Blackberry Eating | |
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| The Bells of Shandon (Excerpt) | |
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| The Moon | |
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| We Are All Riders to the Sea | |
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| Winter Blue (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| Lime Green (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| Yellow (5th grader, 2002) | |
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| The Color Yellow (5th grader, 2001) | |
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| Poems for Fun | |
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| Bed in Summer | |
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| At the Sea-side | |
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| My Shadow | |
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| Rain | |
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| Silly Supper Farm | |
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| When Fishes Set Umbrellas Up | |
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| A Nautical Ballad (Excerpt) | |
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| The Squirrel | |
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| Mary's Lamb (Excerpt) | |
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| The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | |
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| Jabberwocky | |
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| The Lobster-Quadrille | |
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| Billy Button | |
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| Fuzzy Wuzzy | |
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| British Warm | |
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| Casey at the Bat | |
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| How Many Seconds? | |
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| Road Trip | |
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| Invitation | |
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| Beautiful Soup | |
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| A Fly and a Flea in a Flue | |
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| Three Plum Buns | |
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| Look and See | |
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| Drake | |
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| Up the Hill | |
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| Mix a Pancake | |
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| The Fairies (Excerpt) | |
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| The Jumblies (Excerpt) | |
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| The Night Wind | |
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