The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow composed an epic poem about Native Americans. The poem is filled with romantic imagery. There is a story in there also, but I had trouble grasping what was going on. The narration of this audiobook was also well done.
William Blake: Selected Poems by William Blake
This audiobook contains a lot of Blake's poetry, but suffers from lack of organization. There is no written table of contents or chapters in the audiobook. The Song of Innocence collection is roughly in order. Then it starts to get very random with the rest of the works. Blake's poems invoke imagery, and would probably be best read with the initial engravings. The audiobook format does not do them justice. Marriage of Heaven and Hell is an interesting longer work involving some conversations with biblical characters and situating them as people acting appropriately for their conditions. It has some interesting thoughts. "Why Was Cupid a Boy" is a fun little poem exploring gender roles and Cupid. I have a greater respect for Blake after listening to these, but now would like to read them as originally written
Song of Innocence (1789) - most of the poems are here
Song of Experience (1794) - the initial poems are present, then others are interspersed throughout.
I fear'd the fury of my wind (1793 from Blake's notebook)
Mental Traveler (written around 1803, published 1863)
Crystal Cabinet (written around 1801-1803 from pickering manuscript)
Grey Monk (written around 1803 in pickering manuscript)
Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell (pickering manuscript)
William Bond (1801-1803 pickering)
Why Was Cupid a Boy (1808-1811 in Blake's notebook)
And did those feet in ancient time (from Milton: a Poem 1804 or 1808)
Auguries of Innocence (written around 1803, published 1863)
A Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
This is a short book of bedtime poems. Some like "Wee Willie Winkie". Others are more obscure to English speakers. It is short enough to hold the attention of kids.
This book includes a variety of animal-related poems. Some are common nursery rhymes. There are some by well-known poets like William Carlos Williams, and others translated from other languages. Most are pretty good. The selection is short and easily readable.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Favourite Poems by Anton Lesser (Narrator), Anne Harvey (Narrator), Katinka Wolf (Narrator), Jan Fielden (Author), John Mole (Author)
This collection has a bit of classic poems. These poems are often "children's" poems, though the originals are often beyond the understanding of kids. The Pied Piper even has the children carried away by the piper.
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
This book of poetry is similar to Shel Silverstein's other works. It can be difficult to tell them apart. It has a bit of subversive child humour. A kid dreams of torturing a teachers with excessive work. In another someone tries to invent things, but they the things are ridiculous, like mustard ice cream. It is not quite as classic as Where the Sidewalk Ends, but still good.
Shel Silverstein has a keen wit that he shows with both words and illustrations. The poems have a variety of structures. Some are just a few lines. Others extend for multiple pages. The rhythm and rhyme differ from poem to poem. Some are almost unstructured, while others have a strict rhythm and rhyme that just begs to be sung. The poems are geared towards children and often have a subversive twist. There are some that rely on simple wordplay. (In one, the kid ate a drumstick, much to the chagrin of the drummer.) There is a long one about peanut butter and a short song about sucking your thumb and many others.
Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
A kid is supposed to write poetry. The kid likes free verse, however, others think poetry must have rhythm and rhyme. The kid likes William Carlos William and his poetry. This is a really short book that uses the theme of a "cat" to write the short poetry. There are also some famous cat poems included (by the likes of William Carlos Williams and T.S. Eliot)
The Guinea Voyage by James Field Stanfield
The bulk of the Guinea Voyage is told in verse, with some prose at the end. The theme is that slave voyages were inhumane. The crew were treated horribly. The conditions were deplorable and they essentially had to sign their lives away before going on these slave voyages. And the condition of the crew was better than the conditions of the slaves. They were treated as less than human - possibly even less than animals would be treated. The author deplored slavery and saw the conditions of the slave trade as something awful.
The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
Lady of the Lake is an epic poem that tells the story of some battles and fighting. I really have a challenge staying focussed on the overall narrative.
Red Comet is a long biography of Sylvia Plath. Coming into it, I was not expecting much. I had heard of Plath, but couldn't distinguish her from other poets. As I read the first bart of the book, I became enthralled. I could relate to her experiences, and could picture other people that were similarly driven. She had strong academic standards for herself, yet she was battling internal demons (including her father's early death.) She grew up in an academic environment, and found herself drawn to the intellectual life. She got some high powered magazine jobs, but was disappointed in the superficiality. She struggled with suicide, and spent time in a mental institution. I felt both respect and pitty for her and a strong desire to seek out her additional writings.
As the story of her life progressed into adulthood, my interest waned. Plath came across as somewhat cocky. No longer the young striver, she was the young adult that was manipulating others while she was being manipulated. She fell into the various foibles of young adulthood. She was still motivated to continue writing and was willing to work through rejections to get her works published. The relationship with Ted Hughes seemed like a teenage romance that she wanted to turn into a domestic life. It felt like she was struggled between the desire to be a mother while also carry on an independent intellectual life. Alas, Hughes was a serial philanderer. He did great in the "fun" department, but not so much for the "domesticated". (The book focusses on the "good part". Plath eventually committed suicide. Perhaps it was a problem with her medication that drove her to it. Or perhaps she thought she would live through it as she had done before. Regardless, she probably achieved much more fame in death than she did in life.
Would Plath have faded into obscurity had she not died at an early age? Perhaps she would have focussed more on motherhood and let her writing fall by the wayside. Or perhaps she had her best years writing ahead of her. Or maybe she would have spent all the time battling mental illness. We will not know. The biography starts out strong, then fades near the end. Comet is an apt metaphor for the life portrayed.
Pale Fire is written as a scholarly annotated poem by a dead poet. The "author" (Charles Kinbote) is a scholar neighbor of the dead poet, Shade. It consists of an introduction by the author, the 999 line poem and the commentary of the poem. The introduction gives you a clue that there is something else going on here. The "author" is very full of himself, and feels overly impressed that he is friends with Shade. The poem itself is a very basic, juvenile work. Nothing that would be really "good" on its own. 
TS Eliot: Voice of the Poet is part of a series of recordings of poets reading their own work. However, TS Eliot died in 1965. The quality of recordings in his days was not what it is today. (Think scratchy vinyl.) It does seem nice to get a recording from the actual poet. Thus you can hear what the pronunciation and rhythm are really supposed to be. However, why does this matter? Part of the beauty of the printed word is that it leaves the interpretation up to the reader. And besides, even if this is how the poet said things, is this really how he thought when he wrote things down? 
