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- Anonymous. Bonny Barbara Allen
- Anonymous. Scarborough Fair
- Anonymous. The Frog
- Anonymous. There was a young lady named Bright
- Anonymous. Western Wind
- Arnold, Matthew. Dover Beach
- Behn, Aphra. On Her Loving Two Equally
- Blake, William. Infant Sorrow
- Blake, William. London
- Blake, William. The Chimney Sweeper
- Blake, William. The Garden of Love
- Blake, William. The Lamb
- Blake, William. The Tyger
- Bradstreet, Anne. Before the Birth of One of Her Children
- Bradstreet, Anne. To My Dear and Loving Husband
- Bradstreet, Anne. The Author to Her Book *
- Bronte, Emily. Riches I hold in light esteem
- Brooks, Gwendolyn. We Real Cool *
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. When our two souls stand up erect and strong
- Browning, Robert. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
- Browning, Robert. Meeting at Night
- Browning, Robert. My Last Duchess
- Browning, Robert. Parting at Morning
- Burns, Robert. A Red, Red Rose
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice. from Tarzan of the Apes *
- Byron, Lord George Gordon. She walks in Beauty
- Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky
- Cather, Willa. Paul’s Case *
- Cather, Willa. A Wagner Matinée
- Chekhov, Anton. The Lady with the Dog *
- Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour *
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Kubla Khan
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. What is an Epigram?
- Conrad, Joseph. An Outpost of Progress *
- Crane, Stephen. Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
- Crane, Stephen. A Man Said to the Universe
- Crane, Stephen. The Open Boat *
- Crane, Stephen. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky *
- Dickinson, Emily. A Description of Herself
- Dickinson, Emily. Apparently With No Surprise
- Dickinson, Emily. “Faith” is a fine invention
- Dickinson, Emily. I heard a fly buzz *
- Dickinson, Emily. I Know That He Exists
- Dickinson, Emily. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
- Dickinson, Emily. Oh Sumptuous Moment
- Dickinson, Emily. Portraits Are to Daily Faces
- Dickinson, Emily. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
- Dickinson, Emily. The Bustle in a House
- Dickinson, Emily. The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film
- Dickinson, Emily. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
- Dickinson, Emily. Water, is taught by thirst
- Dickinson, Emily. Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
- Donne, John. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Donne, John. Batter my heart, three-personed God
- Donne, John. The Flea
- Donne, John. Death Be Not Proud
- Donne, John. Song
- Donne, John. The Apparition
- Douglass, Frederick. Learning to Read and Write *
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence. We Wear the Mask
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Theology
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence. To a Captious Critic
- Eliot, George. In a London Drawingroom
- Eliot, T. S. Preludes
- Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Farries, Helen. Magic of Love
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Winter Dreams *
- Freneau, Philip. The Indian Burying Ground
- Frost, Robert. After Apple-Picking
- Frost, Robert. Birches
- Frost, Robert. The Road Not Taken
- Frost, Robert. An Old Man’s Winter Night
- Frost, Robert. Home Burial
- Frost, Robert. “In White”: An Early Version of “Design”
- Frost, Robert. Mending Wall *
- Frost, Robert. Mowing
- Frost, Robert. My November Guest
- Frost, Robert. “Out, Out
- Frost, Robert. Storm Fear
- Frost, Robert. The Oven Bird
- Frost, Robert. The Pasture
- Frost, Robert. The Wood-Pile
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Queer People
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper *
- Glaspell, Susan. Trifles *
- Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Hardy, Thomas. The Convergence of the Twain
- Hardy, Thomas. Hap
- Hardy, Thomas. In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
- Harper, Frances E. W. Learning to Read
- Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Birthmark *
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Minister’s Black Veil *
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown *
- Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants *
- Herbert, George. The Pulley
- Herbert, George. The Collar
- Herrick, Robert. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- Herrick, Robert. Delight in Disorder
- Herrick, Robert. Upon Julia’s Clothes
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. God’s Grandeur
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Spring and Fall
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Hurrahing in Harvest
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Pied Beauty
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Windhover
- Housman, A. E. “Terence, this is stupid stuff”
- Housman, A. E. To an Athlete Dying Young
- Housman, A. E. Is my team ploughing
- Housman, A. E. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
- Housman, A. E. When I was one-and-twenty
- Howe, Julia Ward. Battle-Hymn of the Republic
- Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers *
- Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk *
- Hurston, Zora Neale. How It Feels to Be Colored Me *
- Ibsen, Henrik. from A Doll’s House *
- James, Henry. The Jolly Corner
- James, Henry. The Real Thing
- Jewett, Sarah Orne. A White Heron *
- Jonson, Ben. On My First Son
- Jonson, Ben. Still to be Neat
- Jonson, Ben. To Celia
- Joyce, James. Eveline *
- Keats, John. To Autumn
- Keats, John. Ode to a Nightingale
- Keats, John. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- Keats, John. To one who has been long in city pent
- Keats, John. When I have fears that I may cease to be
- Keats, John. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
- Keats, John. La Belle Dame sans Merci
- Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl *
- Lawrence, D. H. The Horse Dealer’s Daughter *
- Lazarus, Emma. The New Colossus
- London, Jack. The Law of Life
- London, Jack. To Build a Fire *
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Snow-Flakes
- Lowell, Amy. The Pond
- Mansfield, Katherine. Miss Brill *
- Mansfield, Katherine. The Fly *
- Marlowe, Christopher. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- Marvell, Andrew. To His Coy Mistress *
- Mayor of London. Objections to the Elizabethan Theater 1597
- McKay, Claude. America
- Melville, Herman. Bartleby, the Scrivener *
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Wild Swans
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Recuerdo
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent. First Fig
- Milton, John. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
- Milton, John. When I consider how my light is spent
- Owen, Wilfred. Dulce et Decorum Est
- Poe, Edgar Allan. Annabel Lee
- Poe, Edgar Allan. The Haunted Palace
- Poe, Edgar Allan. The Cask of Amontillado *
- Pope, Alexander. from An Essay on Criticism
- Raleigh, Sir Walter. The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Richard Cory
- Robinson, Mary. London’s Summer Morning
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. In Progress
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Promises Like Pie-Crust
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Some Ladies Dress in Muslin Full and White
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Song
- Rossetti, Christina Georgina. The World
- Sandburg, Carl. Buttons
- Sandburg, Carl. Chicago
- Sappho. Beautiful-throned, Immortal Aphrodite
- Sappho. Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne
- Sassoon, Siegfried. “They”
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 116
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 130
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 18
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 73
- Shakespeare, William. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
- Shakespeare, William. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
- Shakespeare, William. When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
- Shakespeare, William. from Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William. from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ozymandias
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ode to the West Wind
- Sidney, Sir Phillip. Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show
- Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. Indian Names
- Sophocles. from Antigone
- Southey, Robert. from “The Cataract of Lodore”
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Sestina
- Taylor, Edward. Housewifery
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Break, Break, Break
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Crossing the Bar
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Tears, Idle Tears
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Ulysses
- Thomas, Dylan. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night *
- Truth, Sojourner. Ain’t I a Woman?
- Twain, Mark. The Story of the Good Little Boy
- Updike, John. A&P *
- Wharton, Edith. The Quicksand
- Whitman, Walt. A Noiseless Patient Spider
- Whitman, Walt. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
- Whitman, Walt. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
- Whitman, Walt. from “I Sing the Body Electric”
- Whitman, Walt. from Song of Myself
- Whitman, Walt. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
- Whitman, Walt. One’s-Self I Sing
- Whitman, Walt. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- Wilde, Oscar. from The Importance of Being Earnest
- Williams, William Carlos. The Red Wheelbarrow*
- Williams, William Carlos. To Waken an Old Lady
- Wordsworth, William. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Wordsworth, William. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
- Wordsworth, William. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- Wordsworth, William. It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
- Wordsworth, William. London, 1802
- Wordsworth, William. Mutability
- Wordsworth, William. My Heart Leaps Up
- Wordsworth, William. The Solitary Reaper
- Wordsworth, William. The World is Too Much With Us
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas. They flee from me
- Zitkala-Sa. The School Days of an Indian Girl
Annotated Selections
The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.(Opens in new window)
- Aeschylus. from Seven Against Thebes (Opens in new window)
- Bradstreet, Anne. Before the Birth of One of Her Children(Opens in new window)
- Bradstreet, Anne. The Author to Her Book *(Opens in new window)
- Brooks, Gwendolyn. We Real Cool(Opens in new window)
- Chopin, Kate. The Storm(Opens in new window)
- Dickinson, Emily. Because I could not stop for Death-(Opens in new window)
- Dickinson, Emily. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died- *(Opens in new window)
- Donne, John. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning(Opens in new window)
- Donne, John. The Flea(Opens in new window)
- Dungy, Camille. Because it looked hotter that way(Opens in new window)
- Frost, Robert. Mending Wall *(Opens in new window)
- Frost, Robert. The Wood-Pile(Opens in new window)
- Glaspell, Susan. Trifles *(Opens in new window)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Minister’s Black Veil(Opens in new window)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown(Opens in new window)
- Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants(Opens in new window)
- Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers *(Opens in new window)
- Joyce, James. Araby *(Opens in new window)
- Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl *(Opens in new window)
- Marvell, Andrew. To His Coy Mistress *(Opens in new window)
- Middleton, Thomas. from The Revenger's Tragedy (Opens in new window)
- Poe, Edgar Allan. The Tell-Tale Heart(Opens in new window)
- Pound, Ezra. In a Station of the Metro(Opens in new window)
- Salem Witch Trial Documents.(Opens in new window) (see Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown)
- Sanger, Margaret. The Morality of Birth Control(Opens in new window)
- Shakespeare, William. from Hamlet *(Opens in new window)
- Shakespeare, William. from A Midsummer Night's Dream *(Opens in new window)
- Shaw, George Bernard. Commentary on A Doll’s House(Opens in new window)
- Sheridan, Robert Brinsley. from The Rivals (Opens in new window)
- Sources of Trifles(Opens in new window) (see Glaspell, Susan. Trifles)
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Declaration of Sentiments(Opens in new window)
- Thomas, Dylan. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night *(Opens in new window)
- Updike, John. A&P *(Opens in new window)
- Vorda, Allan. Interview on Girl, with Jamaica Kincaid(Opens in new window)
- Whitman, Walt. Starting from Paumanok(Opens in new window)
- Wilde, Oscar. from The Importance of Being Earnest (Opens in new window)
- Williams, William Carlos. The Red Wheelbarrow *(Opens in new window)
- Yeats, William Butler. The Stolen Child(Opens in new window)