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The Garden of Love
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Planetarium
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

A Carafe, that is a Blind Glass
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

West-Running Brook
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Success Is Counted Sweetest
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1864

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Eating Alone
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult

The Leash
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Moose
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

To Return To The Trees
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

To a Mouse
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1786

Blizzard
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

There's A Certain Slant Of Light
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Oranges
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

The Diameter of the Bomb
Yehuda Amichai

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Greater Love
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Quilts
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

La Migra
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Postcard from Kashmir
Agha Shahid Ali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Caged Bird
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

Ode to Walt Whitman
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Wedding Poem
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Highland Mary
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1792

When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

Blood
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Ars Poetica?
Czesław Miłosz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

The Flea
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Early in the Morning
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

We Have Been Friends Together
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

On Turning Ten
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Having It Out with Melancholy
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

jasper texas 1998
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

my dream about being white
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

So This is Nebraska
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Wind, Water, Stone
Octavio Paz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Red Sweater
Joseph O. Legaspi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Persimmons
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Sleeping with the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

WHEREAS
Layli Long Soldier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Hope is a strange invention
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["I lock you in..."]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Apollo
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1599

To the Skylark
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1825

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

The Sick Rose
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Today
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

The Immigrant's Song
Tishani Doshi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Wirers
Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Instructions on Not Giving Up
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

the sun and her flowers
Rupi Kaur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

When Dawn Comes to the City
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

Among School Children
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

The Crazy Woman
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Butter
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

London
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Old Love
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Peace
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1879

Spring is like a perhaps hand
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

To Penshurst
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1616

Eurydice
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III)
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Perhaps the World Ends Here
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Two Lorries
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

How to Triumph Like a Girl
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Adam's Song
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Four Poems for Robin
Gary Snyder

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

To Aunt Rose
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1959

Lament
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Ellis Island
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

No More Cake Here
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Cherrylog Road
James Dickey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Reservation Love Song
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

For Love
Robert Creeley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

The Masque of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1832

The Only News I Know
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Dusting
Marilyn Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Elegy for the Native Guards
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Wild Bees
James K. Baxter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

High Windows
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Selma, 1965
Gloria Larry House

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

The Spring And The Fall
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Art of Disappearing
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

They Don't Love You Like I Love You
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
Andrew Marvell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

A Glimpse
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860