Tuesday, December 30, 2008

90. A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers from My Shelfari "I Plan to Read" Shelf

90. Read at least 30 books from my "I Plan To Read" Shelf



I don't know that I am going to do a full review of each book that I read, but I will at least post my favorite excerpt from each. This book A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers is the first book that I have read for my 101 project from my "I Plan To Read" Shelf, and it was absolutely fantastic. A couple of other Shelfari readers have given their comments here, and I have to say that for the most part, I agree with them. The beginning has a lot of historical information that I found fascinating, but I can see how some may have found it difficult to get into. However, if you decide to read this book, and do find that section a bit tedious, be sure to press on because the remainder of the book is SOOOOOOOO worth it!

I have always loved Francine Rivers's work. The first book of hers that I read was Redeeming Love, and this series is every bit as powerful! I have been so inspired by Hadassah's (main character) love for Christ and servant's heart! Here's one of my favorite passages:

". . . He looked at Hadassah sleeping peacefully and knew that if he asked, she would open herself to him. Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of every day she was devoted to pleasing her god by serving others. This god that she worshipped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This god wanted all of her.

And what did she get from him? What reward had she received for her devotion? SHe was a slave. She had no possessions, no rights, no protection other than what her owners gave her. She couldn't even marry without her master's permission. Her life depended on the goodwill of her owners, for she could be killed for any or no reason at all. She received one small coin a day from his father, and that she frequently gave away.

He remembered the peace on her face as she had stood with her face to the wind. Peace . . . and joy. She was a slave and yet she seemed to possess a sense of freedom he had never felt . . . "

Monday, December 29, 2008

1. The 5:16 Club

“I earnestly recommend that it be in the early morning, unless there are some extenuating circumstances. Entering the day without a serious meeting with God, over his Word and in prayer, is like entering the battle without tending to your weapons. The human heart does not replenish itself with sleep. The body does, but not the heart. We replenish our hearts not with sleep, but with the Word of God and prayer.”

John Piper

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Sarah Mae at Like a Warm Cup of Coffee started the 5AM Club. The purpose of our little group is to intentionally set aside a time every day, first thing in the morning, to spend some quality time with the Lord. Sarah Mae linked to girl talk whose "Habits of Highly Effective Women" begin with she rises early. Sarah Mae changed our chapter of the club to the 5:16 club when she found this verse:

Ephesians 5:16
making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil

Getting up at 5:16AM every morning to read my Bible and pray is one way that I intend to "make the mmost of every opportunity." And the reason that I put on my goal "for 21 days straight" is because they say that in order to make something a habit, you have to do it every day for 21 days.

Lisa over at Stop and Smell the Chocolates posted the following poem in one of her Motivate Me Monday posts, and I think it is a very appropriate explantion of what I hope to gain from these times.


"In the early morning hours,
'Twixt the night and day,
While from earth the darkness passes
Silently away;

Then it's sweet to talk with Jesus
In your bedroom still--
For the coming day and duties
Ask to know His will.

Then He'll lead the way before you,
Laying mountains low;
Making desert places blossom,
Sweet'ning sorrow's flow.

Do you want a life of triumph,
Victory all the way?
Then put God in the beginning
Of each coming day."

(From Charles E Cowman Devotionals - Streams in the Desert)

7. A Christian Woman's Reading List

A Christian Woman’s Reading List

1. A Place of Quiet Rest: Finding Intimacy With God Through a Daily Devotional Life by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
2. Disciplines of a Godly Woman by Barbara Hughes
3. When Life and Beliefs Collide by Carolyn Custis James
4. Lies Women Believe: And the Truth That Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
5. Beautiful in God's Eyes by Elizabeth George
6. A Woman After God's Own Heart® by Elizabeth George
7. Idols of the Heart: Learning to Long for God Alone by Elyse Fitzpatrick
8. Loving God With All Your Mind by Elizabeth George
9. Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism by John Piper
10. Liberated Through Submission by P. B. Wilson
11. A RETURN TO MODESTY: Discovering the Lost Virtue by Wendy Shalit
12. Feminine Appeal by Carolyn Mahaney
13. Biblical Womanhood in the Home (Foundations for the Family Series) by Mary A. Kassian
14. Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood by Carolyn Mahaney
15. Does Christianity Squash Women?: A Christian Looks at Womanhood by Rebecca Jones
16. Attitudes of a Transformed Heart by Martha Peace
17. Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood (Foundations for the Family Series) by Wayne Grudem
18. Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth: An Analysis of More Than 100 Disputed Questions by Wayne Grudem
19. Becoming a Titus 2 Woman; A Bible Study with Martha Peace by Martha Peace
20. Women Helping Women: A Biblical Guide to Major Issues Women Face by Elyse Fitzpatrick
21. Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God by Noel Piper
22. The True Woman: The Beauty and Strength of a Godly Woman by Susan Hunt
23. Sex and the Supremacy of Christ by John Piper

15. The Best Christian Marriage Books

1. The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle by Mike Mason
2. Each for the Other: Marriage As It's Meant to Be by Bryan Chapell
3. Most Important Year in a Woman's Life, The/The Most Important Year in a Man's Life by Robert Wolgemuth
4. Letters to Philip by Charlie W. Shedd/Letters to Karen by Charlie W. Shedd
5. A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
6. The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate by Gary Chapman
7. His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage by Willard F. Harley Jr.
8. Sacred Marriage by Gary L. Thomas
9. Getting Your Sex Life Off to a Great Start - A Guide for Engaged and Newlywed Couples by Clifford L. and Penner, Joyce J. Penner
10. A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual Intimacy by Douglas E. Rosenau
11. Intimate Allies: Rediscovering God's Design for Marriage and Becoming Soul Mates for Life by Dan B. Allender
12. The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
13. Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time (The Every Man Series) by Stephen Arterburn
14. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Marry by Leslie Parrott
15. Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs

45-48. My Husband Rocks!



In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.
~Robert Sexton~


Marriage is truly a beautiful thing. Easy? Definitely not. Fun? Not always, but often. Worth it? Every minute! However, in today's culture marriage has gotten a bad rap. Married couples in movies and on television are often depicted as miserable and mutually disrespectful. In break rooms across the world one can find co-workers engaging in ritual "spouse bashing." And more and more people have simply stopped believing that marriage is of any value at all.


Being a newlywed myself, I've honestly been a little discouraged by the negative connotation marriage is receiving. Until I found a company that's doing something about it!


That company is From*me Tees! You can get to their website by clicking on that link, or the button in my sidebar. Below is a snippet from the "About Us" section of their website.


"From*me Tees was started by a married couple who knows what it is to work through hard stuff and yet stay together and stay committed through it all. One of the great and wonderful mysteries of life is that loving each other in action--what we do and say--produces romance. Everything in our culture today teaches the opposite, that romance turns into love, but nothing could be further from the truth. Love is a choice and we decide how we're going to treat each other in the good and in the not-so-good times. What a hope-giving reality that a strong relationship can be built, simply by changing how we interact with our spouse.

Marriage was created to be a blessing and a little kindness and respect goes a long way. Accept the fact that your spouse isn't perfect and then start taking notice of all the good things they bring to the table! Pretty soon you can train your mind to be grateful for who they are as opposed to feeling disappointed about who they are not. When you allow yourself to believe that your spouse rocks, you will free yourself from the downward spiral of self-pity, disappointment, and even dispair. The key is to change yourself! And you'll be surprised at the positive affect it has on the one you choose to love...and you!" source


I was so excited and inspired when I found their website (thank you An Island Life) and read their mission statement! This is exactly what I've been looking for and trying to create in my marriage! Marriage should be fun and happy and wonderful, and we should look at it in a positive light! (That being said, I am fully aware and willing to put in the work and commitment it takes to create a lasting marriage, but that doesn't have to be a drudge or a chore, either!) And I decided that I am going to join them in putting marriage in a positive light! I want my husband to feel loved and respected by me, and I want to encourage others in this as well!


Thus ~ "my husband rocks" Fridays ~ is born!


Every Friday, I post a story, or photo, or quote about how and why my husband rocks! on my main blog page the great adventure. And I invite you to do the same!

"No husband is perfect and it doesn’t really matter. What matters is how I set myself up to think about him. If I focus on his failures, his annoyances, or ways in which I’ve felt hurt by him, then I will interact with him as a hurt and frustrated and disappointed wife. That makes for miserable living for me and my husband and those around us. But if I focus on his strengths, his potential, and the ways in which I feel blessed by him, then I will interact with him as a forgiving, blessed, and contented wife. And there’s no greater need a man has than to feel respected by his wife. If he feels like all he does is hurt, disappoint, and frustrate, then the same atmosphere and the same actions will be perpetuated. But if he feels that his wife can be happy and responsive regardless of his shortcomings, he feels respected and empowered. Then a positive atmosphere is perpetuated and actions, once destructive, can improve in an environment that is rich for
cultivation and growth into deepened respect and intimacy." (from the From*me Tees Mission Reflection)


If you'd like to join me in ~"my husband rocks" Fridays~ every Friday, write a post proclaiming to the world why your husband (or wife, or husband-to-be, or wife-to-be) ROCKS!, then come back here and comment with the permalink to your post, and I will add you the ~My Husband Rocks! ~ blogroll!


And as an added bonus . . . . if you make a From*me Tees purchase (of at least two items) on Fridays as part of this "carnival," From*me Tees has generously offered to refund your shipping charges if you mention my blog and the "my husband rocks Fridays carnival" during checkout at the "how did you hear about us" reply link!


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52. Books on Christian Parenting

Books on Christian Parenting

1. Praise Her in the Gates: The Calling of Christian Motherhood by Nancy Wilson
2. Standing on the Promises: A Handbook of Biblical Childrearing by Douglas Wilson
3. Future Men by Douglas Wilson
4. Teach Them Diligently: How To Use The Scriptures In Child Training by Louis Paul Priolo
5. The Heart of Anger by Lou Priolo
6. What The Bible Says About Parenting Biblical Principle For Raising Godly Children by John MacArthur
7. Bringing Up Boys: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Men by James C. Dobson
8. The New Dare to Discipline by James C. Dobson
9. New Hide or Seek, The: Building Confidence in Your Child by James Dobson
10. Parenting Isn't for Cowards by James C. Dobson
11. The Strong-Willed Child by James C. Dobson

65. Project 365

Project 365

Tips on How to Do It
Here are six tips on how to create your own Project 365:


1. Bring Your Camera Everywhere
Yes, everywhere. Get in the habit. Grocery stores, restaurants, parties, work, and school. Going to a movie theatre? Snap a pic of the flick with your phone–there are photo-ops everywhere. If you have one of those tiny tiny cameras, you have no excuse not to have it in your pocket all the time. And if you don’t? Camera phones are a great substitute.


2. Make Posting Easy
You can install blog software like Movable Type or Wordpress on your own site and create an entry for each photo, but for true ease of use, try a photo sharing site. Flickr will let you post a week’s worth of photos in 2 minutes flat, and fotolog and Photoblog.com are geared toward a photo-a-day workflow. Making it fast and easy means you’re much more likely to do it.


3. Vary Your Themes
Try to capture the day’s events in a single photo. Perform photographic experiments. Take a photo of someone new you meet, something you ate for the first time, or something you just learned how to do. Take a photo of something that made you smile. And don’t forget to take a photo of yourself at least once a month so you can remember how you’ve changed, too.


4. Tell a Story
Use your blog entry, or your photo description, to explain what’s going on in each day’s photograph. How good did that dinner taste? What made you want to take a photo of that stranger? It’ll help you remember down the road, and it gives friends following along a better appreciation of why you took the photo you did. You don’t need to write a lot, just enough to add some color.


5. Don’t Stop, No Matter What
This is perhaps the most important tip of all. You will get tired of taking a photo every single day. Some days, you will consider giving up. Don’t. The end result is worth the effort. Remind yourself why you wanted to do it in first place.

There will be times you’ll think there’s nothing interesting left to take a photo of, and times you’ll think you didn’t do anything exciting enough to take a photo of. There’s always a great photo to be made.

Get out of the house and take a walk. Or stay inside and look around. Take a photo of something important to you. Take a photo of the inside of your house so you can see how your taste has changed over the years. Take a photo of anything, just don’t stop.

N.b. It helps if you’ve told your friends about the project and asked them to follow along. Their encouragement will keep you going!


6. Post early, post often
Plan on going through and posting your photos at least once a week so you don’t get backlogged and feel overwhelmed. Ideally, post every day or two. Again, spend the time up front to make sure it’s quick and easy to post. It’ll make all the difference.

I will be posting my shots here.

87. Classic & Contemporary Literature List

A, B
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables (the series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Black Rose by Thomas B. Costain
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

C, D
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Diary of Anne Frank edited by Otto Frank
Dracula by Bram Stoker

E, F, G
Emma by Jane Austen
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

H, I, J
Harry Potter (the series) by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Every Burnford
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Invisable Man by H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

K, L
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Little House (the series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings (the trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien

M, N
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Night by Elie Wiesel

O, P
The Odyssey by Homer
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

R, S
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Redwall (the series) by Brian Jacques
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

T, W, Y
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
White Fang by Jack London
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

88. AP English Reading List

Drama

A, C, D
Antigone by Sophocles
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Dutchman by Amiri Baraka

F, G, H
Fences by August Wilson
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Harvest Festival by Sean O'Casey
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Homecoming by Harold Pinter

I, K, L
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

M, O, P
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
The Misanthrope by Moliere
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Othello by William Shakespeare
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

R, S, T
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Tartuffe by Moliere

W, Z
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Way of the World by William Congreve
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez

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Fiction (Novel & Short Story)
A
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The American by Henry James
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Antelope Wife by Louise Erdich
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The Awakening by Kate Chopin

B
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman

C
Cane by Jean Toomer
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Clara by Luisa Valenzuela
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

D, F
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Dubliners by James Joyce
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

G
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

H
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I, J
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jazz by Toni Morrison

L, M
Libra by Don DeLillo
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Magus by John Fowles
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

N, O, P
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
1984 by George Orwell
No Exit by JeanPaul Sartre
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Plague by Albert Camus
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

R, S
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Serafina's Stories by Rudolfo Anaya
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

T, U, V
Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tree Bride by Bharati Mukherjee
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys

W
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Poetry

B
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Ben Johnson by Ben Johnson
The Best Poems of the English Language compiled by Harold Bloom
A Book of Luminous Things: An international Anthology of Poetry compiled by Czeslaw Milosz

C
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
Collected Poems, 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
The Complete English Poems by George Herbert
The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop

E, H, I, J
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Helen in Egypt by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
John Donne's Poetry by John Donne

L, M, N
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Life Studies/For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Lord Byron: Poems by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th edition) compiled by Margaret Ferguson

O, P
On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove
Opened Ground: Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
Picture Bride by Cathy Song
The Poems of Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore
Poems of W.H. Auden by W.H. Auden
Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (4th edition) compiled by R.S. Gwynn
Poetry for the Spirit compiled by Alan Jacobs

R, S, T
The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Browning's Poetry by Robert Browning
Roots by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Shelley's Poetry and Prose by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko
"To His Coy Mistriss" & Other Poems by Andrew Marvell

W, Y
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
William Wordsworth — the Major Works: Including the Prelude by William Wordsworth
Works of Anne Bradstreet by Anne Bradstreet
Yellow Light: Poems by Garrett Hongo