This article studies the afterlife of poems as examples. Using the Princeton Prosody Archive and a large reference corpus of anglophone poetry, we recover likely poem quotations across works on prosody, elocution, grammar, rhetoric, and literary instruction from 1532 to 1929. We treat reception as a practical history of availability: the ways poems were cut into lines, couplets, and stanzas and made to do explanatory work. Methodologically, the article combines text-reuse detection with corpus filtering and hierarchical modeling to distinguish spurious textual overlap from historically plausible quotation and to trace poem-level trajectories through the archive. Those trajectories reveal specific contours of a shift in the repertoire of teachable verse: the Augustan classical-translation apparatus that had organized verse pedagogy through the eighteenth century gave way, across the long nineteenth century, to a Romantic and lyric repertoire whose lines could travel without contextual framing. The resulting account describes the quotable canon as a collection of poems and fragments whose authority was made through use. It shows how poetic reception can be studied at scale while remaining attentive to the instability of quotation, attribution, and reuse.