W. H. Auden

William Blake

Witter Bynner

e. e. cummings

Emily Dickinson

John Donne

T. S. Eliot

Robert Frost

George Herbert

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Robert Lowell

Archibald MacLeish

Herman Melville

Marianne Moore

Anne Sexton

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dylan Thomas

William Carlos Williams

William Butler Yeats

Bonus:  Dubious First Lines

Dregs Benedict: Kate’s Own Clunkers

When Bad Poems Happen to Good Poets:
Sister Kate’s Dreck of the Greats