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The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1900

The Dead
Susan Mitchell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

The Death of a Soldier
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Death of Santa Claus
Charles Harper Webb

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

The Death of the Hired Man
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Diameter of the Bomb
Yehuda Amichai

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Disquieting Muses
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Dream of the Rood
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Dunciad
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1743

The Eagle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1851

The End and the Beginning
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

The End of Science Fiction
Lisel Mueller

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

The Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

The Expatriates
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

The Explosion
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

The Facebook Sonnet
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

The Flea
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

The Flock
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

The Fly
Karl Shapiro

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

The Garden of Love
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

The Gift
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

The Gift Outright
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

The Glass Essay
Anne Carson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

The Good Life
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

The Goose Fish
Howard Nemerov

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

The Guitar
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

The Hand
Mary Ruefle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Harlem Dancer
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

The Haunted Palace
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1839

The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

The History Teacher
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

The Hollow Men
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1925

The Iliad
Homer, Transl. Robert Fagles

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Illiterate
William Meredith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1958

The Imaginary Iceberg
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

The Immigrant's Song
Tishani Doshi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

The Island Within
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1854

The Lady Of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

The Lais of Marie de France
Marie De France

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1100

The Lake
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1827

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

The Lamb
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Landlady
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

The Last Ride Together
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

The Last Wolf
Mary TallMountain

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The Leash
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lesson
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

The Lesson of the Moth
Don Marquis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1927

The Lisbon Earthquake
Voltaire

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1756

The Little Boy Found
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Lost Baby Poem
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

The Lovers of the Poor
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

The Lynching
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1902

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Masque of Anarchy
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1832

Theme for English B
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

The Miracle of Morning
Amanda Gorman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

The Moose
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

The Mountain
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

The Munich Mannequins
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1883

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1910

The Odyssey
Homer, Transl. Emily Wilson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

Theogony
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

Theology
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

The Only News I Know
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

Theories of Time and Space
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1871

The Painter
John Ashbery

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

The Paper Nautilus
Marianne Moore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

The Partial Explanation
Charles Simic

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1599

The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

The Poem of the Cid (The Song of the Cid)
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1757

The Rape of Lucrece
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1594

The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1712

The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

The Red Shoes
Sheila Black

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Sweater
Joseph O. Legaspi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

There is no Frigate like a Book
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1866

There's A Certain Slant Of Light
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

The Rider
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

the rites for Cousin Vit
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

The Romance of the Rose
Guillaume De Lorris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1230