Aemilia Lanyer, "from The Description of Cooke-ham"
Alexander Pope, "from An Essay on Criticism"
Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book"
Anne Finch, "A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685"
John Dryden, "from Absalom and Achitophel"
Oliver Goldsmith, "from The Deserted Village"
Phillis Wheatley, "To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess"
Samuel Johnson, "from The Vanity of Human Wishes"
Thom Gunn, "The J Car"
Wilfred Owen, "Strange Meeting"