Volume I: Shakespeare, Carl Sandburg, Jr., Robert Hillyer, Anne Sexton, Leigh Hunt, Samuel Coleridge, Aprha Behn, Roger McGough, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kipling, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Emily Dickinson, Frost, Chaucer, Ogden Nash, Richard Armour, Anonymous, John Milton, Stephen Spender, Percy Shelley, Henry Wadsworth, Longfellow.

Volume II: John Masefield, Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley, Keats, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, George Herbert, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel W. Allen, A.P. Herbert, Roger McGough, Pope, Edwin Markham, Anne Bradstreet, Judith Viorst, Conrad Aiken, Lord Byron, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, James Russell Lowell, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Cowper, Hartley, Coleridge, Eugene Field, Lord Byron, Joseph S. Newman, Yeats, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Lee Masters, Phyllis McGinley, e.e... cummings, Roger McGough, Edith Sitwell.

Volume III: Wordsworth, Archibald MacLeish, Louis Simpson, William Carlos Williams, Alan Dugan, Tennyson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Poe, Roethke, John Gould Fletcher, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesse Stuart, Jonathan Swift, Twain, Khayyam, Rihaku (LI-PO), Yevgeny Yevtushenko, C.Day Lewis, Sir John Betjeman, William Dickey, Stevenson, Thomas Moore, Anonymous, W.H. Auden, Hammerstein, Edgar "Yip Harburg, A.A. Milne, Lear, Longfellow, The Bible, Pope, Shakespeare, Anonymous.

Volume IV: Tennyson, Shakespeare, Thomas Aldrich, John Dryden, Peter Motteaus, Ted Hughes, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, N.H. Brettell, Bayard Taylor, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Robert V. Carr, Dubose Heyward, Matthew Arnold, Phillip Larkin, Jenny Joseph, Anonymous, Sheldon Harnick, Roger McGough, Emily Bronte, Ernest Dowson, John Donne, Thomas Gray, Christina Rossetti, Dylan Thomas, Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Herrick, Robert Burns, Edmund Waller, Dorothy Parker, Herbert Read, Phyllis McGinley, Langston Hughes, Shakespeare.