There so much poetry--thankfully in the public domain--that makes up our cultural and literary heritage. Here's one that everyone should know. It's by R.L.Stevenson and dates from the 19th century. It used to be popular as an epitaph:
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
There is a lot more, especially novels, on the project gutenberg to download. And with a voice synthetizer program, the computer is reading it out to me. D.H.Lawrence, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad and many more.
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Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.