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Elliptical
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Ellis Island
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Eloisa to Abelard
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1717

Emplumada
Lorna Dee Cervantes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

End of April
Phillis Levin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Endymion: A Poetic Romance
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Entrance
Dana Gioia

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Epilogue
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Erec and Enide
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1170

Eros Turannos
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1832

Eurydice
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1847

Evening Hawk
Robert Penn Warren

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

& even the black guy’s profile reads 'sorry, no black guys'
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Exchanging Hats
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Facing It
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

"Faith" is a fine invention
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Fame Is a Fickle Food (1702)
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Famous
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Fast Break
Edward Hirsch

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Father Returning Home
Dilip Chitre

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Fifth Grade Autobiography
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

Fire and Ice
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

First Death in Nova Scotia
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

First They Came...
Martin Niemöller

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

Five Flights Up
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

For A Poet
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Forgetfulness
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

For Love
Robert Creeley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

For You O Democracy
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Four Poems for Robin
Gary Snyder

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

Fragment 31
Sappho

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

Fra Lippo Lippi
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Frederick Douglass
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Frederick Douglass
Robert Hayden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1947

Freedom Summer
J. Patrick Lewis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

From Blossoms
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

From The Dark Tower
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

From the Desire Field
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

From the Wave
Thom Gunn

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Gate A-4
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

George Gray
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

Go Down, Moses
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1872

God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Good Bones
Maggie Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Good Man
Angelo 'Eyeambic' Geter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Grass
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Graveyard Blues
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Greater Love
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Gretel in Darkness
Louise Glück

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Hanging Fire
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Harlem
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Hate Poem
Julie Sheehan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Having It Out with Melancholy
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Heart to Heart
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Heritage
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Hero and Leander
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1598

High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

Highland Mary
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1792

High to Low
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

High Windows
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

History Lesson
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Home After Three Months Away
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1959

Home Burial
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Homecoming
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Homeric Hymns
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Hope is a strange invention
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

"Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Hours Continuing Long
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog
Taylor Mali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Howl
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

How to Triumph Like a Girl
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Hurt Locker
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Iambicum Trimetrum
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1580

I Am the People, the Mob
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

I Ask My Mother to Sing
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

I Can Wade Grief
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]”
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Identity
Julio Noboa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

If—
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1910

I Felt a Cleaving in my Mind
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

If I Could Tell You
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

If I should die
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

If They Should Come for Us
Fatimah Asghar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

If We Must Die
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

If You Forget Me
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

If you were coming in the fall
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

I Go Back to May 1937
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004