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The Death of the Hired Man
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

In This Place (An American Lyric)
Amanda Gorman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1900

Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Cremation of Sam McGee
Robert W. Service

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1907

From the Desire Field
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

A Brave And Startling Truth
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Hanging Fire
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1836

When We Two Parted
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

anyone lived in a pretty how town
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

Portrait of a Lady
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Dear Basketball
Kobe Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dream of the Rood
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Dark Night of the Soul
John of the Cross

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1583

When Death Comes
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

The Dead
Susan Mitchell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1902

The Death of Santa Claus
Charles Harper Webb

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Famous
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The Armadillo
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Lycidas
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1638

Video Blues
Mary Jo Salter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Rite of Passage
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

The Chambered Nautilus
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1858

September 1, 1939
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1871

Alphabet
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1861

Never Shall I Forget
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1958

Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1830

The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1864

The Triumph of Life
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824

Much Madness is divinest Sense—
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

Little Gidding
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

The Lesson
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Auguries of Innocence
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

The Dunciad
Alexander Pope

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

Sonnet 104
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Judith
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 975

Tristan
Gottfried von Strassburg

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

Ballad of Birmingham
Dudley Randall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Sonnet 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Dreams
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Wanderer
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 950

Rhapsody On A Windy Night
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

The Gift Outright
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

Ode to Psyche
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Split Tooth
Tanya Tagaq

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

“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]”
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Sabbaths, WI
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

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

At an Inn
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1892

Wild Nights Wild Nights
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1711

Sir Orfeo
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1329

Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

Resume
Dorothy Parker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

Neutral Tones
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1898

East Coker
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

Sonnet 43
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Dust of Snow
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Wild Swans at Coole
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

Preludes
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

This Be the Verse
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Eating Together
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

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

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

A Litany for Survival
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

One Today
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

On Imagination
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

End of April
Phillis Levin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

The Secret
Denise Levertov

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Between the World and Me
Richard Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

Father Returning Home
Dilip Chitre

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

First Death in Nova Scotia
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Homecoming
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Dreams
Helen Hunt Jackson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

Speak
James Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Bullet Points
Jericho Brown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Wystan Hugh Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

No Images
William Waring Cuney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Edge
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Prologue
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1650

An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Orpheus and Eurydice
Ovid, Virgil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 8

Sonnet 1
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1591

In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes
Eduardo C. Corral

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Home Burial
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
Okot p'Bitek

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

High to Low
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

This Is a Photograph of Me
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009