"I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out" is an example of
(from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins)

"I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out" is an example of
(from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins)

"The Night was creeping on the ground!/
She crept, and did not make a sound" 
is an example of
(From "Check" by James Stephens)

"You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise."
is an example of
(from "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou)

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both"
The roads are an example of
(From "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost)

"Tails up, with long leaps lovely and slow"
is an example of 
(From "The Buck in the Snow" by Edna St. Vincent Millay)

"City, city,
Wrong and bad,
Looms above me
When I'm sad,
Throws its shadow
On my care,
Sheds its poison
In my air,
Pounds me with its 
Noisy fist" 
 (From "City, City" by Marci Ridlon)
is an example of

"As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade
To all the noises that my garden made,"
(From "Their Lonely Betters" by W. H. Auden)
is an example of 

"I only want
 myself to be
 as silent as
 a winter tree"
 
is an example of 
(From "When All the World is Full of Snow" by N. M. Bodecker

"Mud is very nice to feel
All squishy-squashy between the toes!
I'd rather wade in wiggly mud
Than smell a yellow rose."
is an example of 
(From "Mud" by Polly Chase Boyden)

"I can get through a doorway without any key
And strip the leaves from the great oak tree"
is an example of
(From "The Wind" by James Reeves)

"Now the twigs
Are lined white
And lay the little light"
Is an example of

(From Winterlight" by Ira Joe Fisher)

"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness
But still, like air, I'll rise"
is an example of
(From "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou)