With a little help from perl and the wonderful Project Gutenberg, I've made Shakespeare's  Sonnets (88kb zip, ~630kb expanded) into iPod Notes format. Placing these on the iPod is straightforward. Copy the unzipped directory into your mounted iPod's "Notes" folder.

I'm excited to read these in my downtime and revisit old favorites. (29, 100, 106)

I'm thinking of doing a reminiscence tour of stuff I grew up on: lots of Latin (Ovid,  Cicero, Virgil), Persian (Khayyam, Sa'di, Rumi), and maybe even Urdu poetry.  Later, some more modern ones, if I can figure out the rights/licensing issues.