* William Wordsworth, "The Prelude" (1850)
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H." (1850)
* Walt Whitman, "Song of the Earth" (1860)
* Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Garden" (1886)
* William Morris, "Nyheter fra ingensteds" (1890)
* Rudyard Kipling, "Recessional" (1897)
* Edward Thomas, "Adlestrop" (1915)
* Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier" (1915)
* Siegfried Sassoon, "Base Details" (1918)
* W.B. Yeats, "Påske, 1916" (1916)
* T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" (1922)
* Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" (1923)
* William Carlos Williams, "Paterson" (1946-1958)
* Charles Olson, "The Maximus Poems" (1950-1971)
* Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" (1956)
* Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" (1923)
* Gary Snyder, "Mountains and Rivers Without End" (1965)
* Wendell Berry, "The Country of Marriage" (1973)
* Denise Levertov, "O smak og se" (1974)
* W.S. Merwin, "The Lice" (1978)
* William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark" (1982)
* Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese" (1983)
* Galway Kinnell, "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World" (1982)
* C.K. Williams, "Tar" (1983)
* A.R. Ammons, "Garbage" (1973)
* Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck" (1973)
* Carolyn Forché, "Øya" (1981)
* Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It" (1994)
* Rita Dove, "Thomas og Beulah" (1986)