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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

Theogony
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult

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

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

The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Omar Khayyam

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1100

The Ruined Maid
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1866

The Satyricon
Transl. Piero Chiara, Transl. P.G. Walsh, Petronius

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 60

The Schooner Flight
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

The Secret
Denise Levertov

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

The Secretary Chant
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

The Shampoo
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

The Sick Rose
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

The Soldier
Rupert Brooke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855

The Song of Roland
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1095

The Song of the Shirt
Thomas Hood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1843

The Soul unto itself
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

The Spring And The Fall
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Street
Robert Pinsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

The Summer I Was Sixteen
Geraldine Connolly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

the sun and her flowers
Rupi Kaur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

The Sun Rising
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
R.B. Parkinson (Translator), Sinuhe

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Tradition
Jericho Brown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

The Triumph of Achilles
Louise Glück

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

The Triumph of Life
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824

The Tropics in New York
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Tyger
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

The United States Welcomes You
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

The Unknown Citizen
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

The Venus Hottentot
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

The Victims
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

The Virus
Jericho Brown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

The Vision of Sir Launfal
James Russell Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1848

The Wanderer
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 950

The War Works Hard
Dunya Mikhail

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

The White Goddess
Robert Graves

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1948

The White House
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

The White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1899

The Wild Swans at Coole
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

The Words Under the Words
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The World as Meditation
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

The World Is Too Much with Us
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

The Writer
Richard Wilbur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

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

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

They Feed They Lion
Philip Levine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972