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

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 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.
Sinuhe, R.B. Parkinson (Translator)

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 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

The Young Housewife
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Things We Carry on the Sea
Wang Ping

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

This Is Just to Say
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

This Morning I Pray for My Enemies
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

This World is not Conclusion
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Tired
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1931

To a Daughter Leaving Home
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

To a Mouse
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1786

To an Athlete Dying Young
A. E. Housman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

To Aunt Rose
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1959

To Autumn
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

To Be in Love
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

To Be Of Use
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

To Daffodils
Robert Herrick

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1665

Today
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

To Elsie
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1831

To Help the Monkey Cross the River
Thomas Lux

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

To His Excellency General Washington
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

To make a prairie
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

To My Mother
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

To One Coming North
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

To Penshurst
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1616

To Return To The Trees
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

To The Diaspora
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

To the Skylark
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1825

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1648

To Waken An Old Lady
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

Toy Boat
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Travel
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Traveling through the Dark
William Stafford

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Tristan
Gottfried von Strassburg

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1209

True Love
Robert Penn Warren

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Tula ["Books are door shaped"]
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Two Lorries
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Two Sisters Of Persephone
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

Ulysses
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Valentine
Wendy Cope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Valentine for Ernest Mann
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1593

Verses upon the Burning of our House
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1678

Video Blues
Mary Jo Salter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865