"Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon

Sweetness by Stephen Dunn

"From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee

"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

"Sonnet 19:  When I consider how my light is spent" by John Milton

"Death Be Not Proud:  Holy Sonnet 10"  by John Donne

Izumi Shikibu haiku

"Sonnet 73:  That time of year thou mayst in me behold" by Shakespeare

"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas

Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver

"Messenger" by Mary Oliver

"Learning about Constellations" by Saddiq Dzukogi

"After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese" by Martín Espada

"All Bread" by Margaret Atwood

"From Blossoms" by Li-Young Lee, read and analyzed on Poetry Unbound