• the widow's lament in springtime / william carlos williams
• somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond / e. e. cummings
• a supermarket in california / allen ginsberg
• hope / emily dickinson
• the love song of j. alfred prufrock / t. s. eliot

honorable mentions:

• annabel lee / edgar allen poe
• the hollow men / t. s. eliot
• i wandered lonely as a cloud / william wordsworth
• sonnet 29 / william shakespeare