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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1667

The Iliad
Homer, Transl. Robert Fagles

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1321

Metamorphoses
Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 8

To His Excellency General Washington
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Theogony
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

Still I Rise
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Works and Days
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult

The Odyssey
Homer, Transl. Emily Wilson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Mending Wall
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

An American Sunrise
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

Love Song for Alex, 1979
Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1751

Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

A Far Cry from Africa
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

To a Daughter Leaving Home
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

The End and the Beginning
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Abandoned Farmhouse
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

A Dog Has Died
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

I Sit and Look Out
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Mother to Son
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

An Obstacle
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Siren Song
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Caged Bird
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

If you were coming in the fall
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

My Last Duchess
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Ave Maria
Frank O'Hara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918