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I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

I heard a Fly buzz — when I died
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1864

I Like to See It Lap the Miles
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

I look at the world
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

I Lost My Talk
Rita Joe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Immigrants in Our Own Land
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Incident
Countee Cullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1925

In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes
Eduardo C. Corral

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

In Flanders Fields
John McCrae

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

In Memoriam
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Wystan Hugh Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

In My Craft or Sullen Art
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

In Praise of Darkness
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

Insomnia
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Instructions on Not Giving Up
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

In the Park
Maxine Kumin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

In The Park
Gwen Harwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

In This Place (An American Lyric)
Amanda Gorman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

Invictus
William Ernest Henley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1889

I See the Boys of Summer
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

I Sing the Body Electric
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

I Sit and Look Out
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

I Sit and Sew
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

I, Too
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

It won’t be a bullet
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

Jason and the Golden Fleece
Apollonius of Rhodes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

jasper texas 1998
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Jazz Fantasia
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Jerusalem
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Journey of the Magi
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1927

Joy in the Woods
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Judith
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 975

juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Kindness
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Kissing in Vietnamese
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Knock Knock
Daniel Beaty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Knoxville, Tennessee
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Kubla Khan
Samuel Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1819

Lady Lazarus
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Lament
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

La Migra
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Languages
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Leda and the Swan
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

Legal Alien
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Le Lai de Lanval
Marie De France

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1936

Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now
Matthew Olzmann

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Life
Naomi Long Madgett

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1900

Light Shining Out of Darkness
William Cowper

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ...
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Litany
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Little Beast
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Little Gidding
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

Living in Sin
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1954

London
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

London, 1802
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
Samuel Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1738

Lot's Wife
Anthony Hecht

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Loud Music
Stephen Dobyns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Love After Love
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

Love at First Sight
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

[love is more thicker than forget]
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Love Poem
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Love Poem With Toast
Miller Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Love Song for Alex, 1979
Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

(Love Song, With Two Goldfish)
Grace Chua

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Lycidas
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1638

Mac Flecknoe
John Dryden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1682

Making a Fist
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

Me and the Mule
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1959

Meeting at Night
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Meg Merrilies
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Mementos, 1
W. D. Snodgrass

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Mending Wall
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Messenger
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Metamorphoses
Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 8

Midsummer XXVII
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Mid-Term Break
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1910

Mirror
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

Morning in the Burned House
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Morning Song
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Mother, A Cradle to Hold Me
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Mothers
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Mother to Son
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Mowing
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946