- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- s:Sonnet 68 (Shakespeare) (Author: William Shakespeare)
- s:Sonnet 146 (Shakespeare) (Author: William Shakespeare)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
- s:Poems (Barbauld)/To a Lady, with painted Flowers (Author: Anna Laetitia Barbauld)
- Robert Burns (1759–1796)
- s:The Charming Month of May (Author: Robert Burns)
- Walter Scott (1771–1832)
- s:Hunting Song (Scott) (Author: Sir Walter Scott)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
- s:Poems (Emerson, 1847)/Compensation (Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- s:Poems (Emerson, 1847)/Tact (Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- s:Poems (Emerson, Household Edition, 1904)/The Harp (Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- s:Poems (Emerson, Household Edition, 1904)/Fragments on Nature and Life (Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
- s:Sundown (Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) stanza 2 of 3
- Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
- s:Domestic Peace (Author: Anne Brontë) stanza 2 of 7
- Stephen Foster (1826–1864)
- My Old Kentucky Home
- s:My Old Kentucky Home (Author: Stephen Foster)
- Emily Dickinson (1830–86)
- s:Cocoon above! Cocoon below! (Author: Emily Dickinson)
- s:If recollecting were forgetting, (Author: Emily Dickinson)
- s:Sleep is supposed to be (Author: Emily Dickinson)
- s:So gay a Flower (Author: Emily Dickinson)
- W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911)
- s:Songs of a Savoyard/Would You Know? (Author: W. S. Gilbert)
- William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
- Stops of Various Quills (1895)
- s:Stops of Various Quills/To-morrow (Author: William Dean Howells)
- Alice Meynell (1847–1922)
- s:Poems (Meynell, 1921)/The Fold (Author: Alice Meynell)
- Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927)
- s:Poems (1898)/Love Sailed at Morn (Author: Florence Earle Coates)
- s:Poems (1898)/Memoria (Author: Florence Earle Coates)
- s:Poems (1898)/A Tomb in Tuscany (Author: Florence Earle Coates) stanzas 2 and 5 of 5
- s:Poems (1898)/Wings (Author: Florence Earle Coates)
- Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904)
- s:Grimm Tales Made Gay (Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl)
- Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949)
- s:The Golden Threshold/Poems/Street Cries (Author: Sarojini Naidu)
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975)
- s:Have a Heart/Honeymoon Inn (Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) refrain
- Anna Gertrude Hall (1882–1967)
- s:To a Weed (Author: Gertrude Hall)
- Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
- s:Love Songs/Doubt (Author: Sara Teasdale)
- Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)
- s:Trees and Other Poems/Martin (Author: Joyce Kilmer) stanza 2 of 5
- Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)
- Heintje Simons (1955–)
- Let the sun shine (2:27)—YouTube (Singer: Heintje Simons)