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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 Be the Verse
Philip Larkin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

This Is a Photograph of Me
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

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

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

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

Wade in the Water
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Wait
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Walking Down Park
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

We Are Not Responsible
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

We Are Seven
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Wedding Poem
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

We Have Been Friends Together
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

We Lived Happily During the War
Ilya Kaminsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

We never know how high we are
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Western Wind
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1500

West-Running Brook
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

Whales Weep Not!
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

What Do Women Want?
Kim Addonizio

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

What mystery pervades a well!
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

What Soft — Cherubic Creatures
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

What Teachers Make
Taylor Mali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

What the Living Do
Marie Howe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

What Work Is
Philip Levine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

When Dawn Comes to the City
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

When Death Comes
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

When Giving is All We Have
Alberto Ríos

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

When I Consider How My Light is Spent
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen Chen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1848

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

When There Were Ghosts
Alberto Ríos

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

When the World as We Knew It Ended
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

WHEREAS
Layli Long Soldier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
Martín Espada

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Whose cheek is this?
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

Who Understands Me but Me
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Wild Bees
James K. Baxter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

Wild Geese
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Wild Nights Wild Nights
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Wind
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Wind, Water, Stone
Octavio Paz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Wingfoot Lake
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986