Let \(S_{\kappa }\) be the space of cusp forms of weight \(\kappa \) and level one, and let \(S_{\kappa }^{*}\) denote its dual space. In this paper, we find explicit spanning subsets of \(S_{\kappa }\) consisting of Rankin-Cohen brackets of Eisenstein series and explicit subsets of periods that span \(S_{\kappa }^{*}\).