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The Art of Disappearing
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

The Art of Love
Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2

The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

The Bagel
David Ignatow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Thebaid
Statius, Transl. Jane Wilson Joyce

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 92

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1911

The Battle of Blenheim
Robert Southey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Battle of Maldon
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1726

The Bear
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

The birth in a narrow room
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

The Blackstone Rangers
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1872

The Blue Bowl
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Blue Terrance
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

The Book of Thel
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Book of Yolek
Anthony Hecht

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1982

The Bronze Horseman
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1841

The Bull Moose
Alden Nowlan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Burning Babe
Robert Southwell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1400

The Chambered Nautilus
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1858

The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1854

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Cinnamon Peeler
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

The Circle Game
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

The Colonel
Carolyn Forché

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

The Coming on of Night
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Congo
Vachel Lindsay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Conqueror Worm
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1843

The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Conundrum of the Workshops
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

The Convent Threshold
Christina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

The Convergence of the Twain: Lines on the loss of the "Titanic"
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

The Courage That My Mother Had
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

The Crazy Woman
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Cremation of Sam McGee
Robert W. Service

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1907

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

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
Transl. Robert Fagles, Homer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

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 Journey
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

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