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300 Goats
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Abandoned Farmhouse
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Abend Der Worte
Paul Celan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1950

A Bird, came down the Walk
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Arna Bontemps

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

A Brave And Startling Truth
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Absalom and Achitophel
John Dryden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

Abuelito Who
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

A Carafe, that is a Blind Glass
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

A Careful Passion
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

A Clock stopped—
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

A Complaint
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

Acquainted with the Night
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Act of Union
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Adam's Song
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

A Description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1710

A Dog Has Died
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Adonais
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1821

A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Advice to My Son
Peter Meinke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Aeneid
Virgil

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

A Far Cry from Africa
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

A Following
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Afro-Latina
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

Again Later
Martha Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

A Glimpse
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

A Great Need
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1913

A Jelly-Fish
Marianne Moore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1909

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

A Litany for Survival
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

A Litany in Time of Plague
Thomas Nashe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1600

A Little Girl Tugs at the Tablecloth
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

All That I Owe the Fellows of the Grave
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1933

Alphabet
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

alternate names for black boys
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

A Man Said to the Universe
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1899

Amazing Grace
John Newton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

America
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

America
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

America
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1888

America
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1772

América
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["I lock you in..."]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Probably twilight ...”]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

America the Beautiful
Katharine Lee Bates

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

A Miracle for Breakfast
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Among School Children
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

Amoretti XXXV: "My hungry eyes, through greedy covetize"
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

An Agony. As Now.
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

An American Sunrise
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

An Ancient Gesture
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

An Ante-Bellum Sermon
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

An Atlas of the Difficult World
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

And the People Stayed Home
Kitty O’Meara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1711

An Essay on Man
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1734

A New National Anthem
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
Andrew Marvell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1681

Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

An Obstacle
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1868

Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

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

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

A Poison Tree
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Apollo
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Approach of Winter
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

A Prayer for My Daughter
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

A Primer for the Small Weird Loves
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult

A Psalm Of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1838

A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Are you the new person drawn toward me?
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Ariel
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Arrival at Santos
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

Ars Poetica?
Czesław Miłosz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

A Shropshire Lad, Poem XXXVI
A. E. Housman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

Ash Wednesday
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

A Small Needful Fact
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsberg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

At an Inn
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1892

A Time To Talk
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

At the Galleria Shopping Mall
Tony Hoagland

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

At the Gym
Mark Doty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Aubade
Major Jackson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Aubade with Burning City
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Auguries of Innocence
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1856

Autobiography Of Red
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1998

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Ave Maria
Frank O'Hara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964