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Prometheus
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

Puerto Rican Obituary
Pedro Pietri

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Punishment
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1316

Putting in the Seed
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Pyramus and Thisbe
Ovid

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 8

Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1813

Quilts
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Race
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Remember
Christina Georgina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

Remember
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1982

Requiem
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Requiem
Anna Akhmatova

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Reservation Love Song
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Resume
Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

Rhapsody On A Windy Night
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1897

Rite of Passage
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Rosa Parks
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Ruins of a Great House
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1953

Sabbaths, WI
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Sad Steps
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Sailing to Byzantium
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Sandpiper
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Saturday at the Canal
Gary Soto

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Scaffolding
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

See How the Roses Burn!
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

Selecting a Reader
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Selling Manhattan
Carol Ann Duffy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Selma, 1965
Gloria Larry House

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

September 1, 1939
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

September Suite
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

Sheep In Fog
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

She Walks in Beauty
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1814

She Was a Phantom of Delight
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Shoulders
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Shout
Laurie Halse Anderson

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Siren Song
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1397

Sir Orfeo
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1329

Slam, Dunk, & Hook
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Sleeping with the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Snow
David Berman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
John Greenleaf Whittier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

Social Distancing
Juan Felipe Herrera

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up the Phone
Anne Carson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Some Days
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Sometime During Eternity . . .
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1958

Song of a Second April
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
Okot p'Bitek

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1966

Song of Myself
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1856

Sonnet
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

Sonnet 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 1
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1591

Sonnet 104
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 129
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1599

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 18
Francesco Petrarch

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1330

Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 43
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 60
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sonnet 76
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Sorrow Is Not My Name
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

So This is Nebraska
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

So You Want to Be a Writer?
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Speak
James Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

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

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2018

Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Spring and All
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Spring is like a perhaps hand
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Spring Storm
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Still I Rise
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Still Life in Landscape
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Still to be neat, still to be dressed
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Storm Ending
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Success Is Counted Sweetest
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1864

Sunday Morning
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Surprised by Joy
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1815

Swan and Shadow
John Hollander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1899

Talking in Bed
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Tamerlane
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1827

Tam O’Shanter
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1791

Tattoo
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Tear it Down
Jack Gilbert

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Telephone Conversation
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890