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Mr. Grumpledump's Song
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Much Madness is divinest Sense—
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Mutability
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

my dream about being white
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

My Father's Hats
Mark Irwin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

My Father's Love Letters
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

My Father's Song
Simon J. Ortiz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

My Last Duchess
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

My Love Sent Me a List
Olena Kalytiak Davis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

My Papa's Waltz
Theodore Roethke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

Myth
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Nature
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1878

Necessities of Life
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Neutral Tones
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1898

Never Shall I Forget
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1958

Nibelungenlied
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1200

Night
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

Night, Death, Mississippi
Robert Hayden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Nineteen
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

No Images
William Waring Cuney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

No Man Is an Island
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1624

No More Cake Here
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

North
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

No Second Troy
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Not an Elegy for Mike Brown
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Nothing Twice
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1931

Not Waving but Drowning
Stevie Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

October
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1768

Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode on Melancholy
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1819

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1819

Ode to Dirt
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Ode to Psyche
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode to Teachers
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Ode to Walt Whitman
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Of the Threads that Connect the Stars
Martín Espada

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1830

Old Love
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2010

Old Pond
Basho

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1686

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

On Anger
Rage Hezekiah

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

On Being Brought from Africa to America
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Once by the Pacific
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

One Today
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

On Friendship
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1769

On Imagination
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

On the Move
Thom Gunn

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

On the train the woman standing
Claudia Rankine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

On Turning Ten
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Oranges
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

Orpheus and Eurydice
Ovid, Virgil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 8

Otherwise
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Out, Out—
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Ox Cart Man
Donald Hall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Oxygen
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1667

Paradise Regained
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1671

Paradiso
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1320

Parents
William Meredith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Parzival
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1215

Paterson
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1946

Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1861

Peace
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1879

Perhaps the World Ends Here
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Persimmons
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Planetarium
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Poem about My Rights
June Jordan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Poem for Haruko
June Jordan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1836

Portrait of a Lady
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Postcard from Kashmir
Agha Shahid Ali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Prayer
Dana Gioia

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Prayer to the Masks
Léopold Sédar Senghor

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Preludes
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

Problems with Hurricanes
Victor Hernández Cruz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Prologue
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1650