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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