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arranged by genre and alphabetically by the author's last name FICTION CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930) Marriage Is a Private Affair 946 SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966) This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) Sonny's Blues 534 TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939-1995) The Lesson 1 1 6 ROBERT OLEN BUTLER (b. 1945) Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot 766 RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 742 KATE CHOPIN (1 851—1904) The Storm 724 SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954) The House on Mango Street 127 CHITRA BANERIEE DIVAKARUNI (b. 1956) Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter 568 HARLAN ELLISON (b. 1934) "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962) [A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1 860—1935) The Yellow Wallpaper 729 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804—1864) [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899—1961 ) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 96 Yu HUA (b. 1960) Appendix 299 SHIRLEY JACKSON (1 91 9-1 965) The Lottery 350 JAMES JOYCE (1 882-1941) [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) FRANZ KAFKA (1 883-1924) A Hunger Artist 342 JAMAICA KINCAID (b. 1 949) Girl 566 D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) The Rocking-Horse Winner 6 URSULA K. LE GUIN (b. 1929) The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas HERMAN MELVILLE (1 81 9-1 891) [Bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) PAULINE MELVILLE (b. 1948) The Sparkling Bitch 373 HARUKI MURAKAMI (b. 1949) On Seeing the 1000/0 Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning 123 JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 752 TIM O'BRIEN (b. 1946) The Things They Carried 1036 FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1 925-1 964) Good Country People 10() EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809—1849) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1 890-1 980) The Jilting of Cranny Weatherall 1028 NAHID RACHLIN (b. 1 946) Departures 951 LESLIE MARMON SILKO (b. 1948) The Man to Send Rain Clouds AMY TAN (b. 1952) Two Ki nds 383 TOLSTOY (1 828-191 0) The Death of Ivin llYch 974 ALICE WALKER (b. 1 944) Everyday Use 559 CAN XUE (b. 1953) Hut on the Mountain 304 POETRY ANONYMOUS Bonny Barbara Allan 774 ANONYMOUS Edward 1054 ARNOLD (1 822-1 888) Dover Beach 796 HANAN MIKHA'IL 'ASHRAWI (b. 1946) From the Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-Old Night Patrol 418 W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973) Musée des Beaux Arts 1067 The Unknown Citizen 407 ELIZABETH BISHOP (1 91 1-1979) One Art 802 WILLIAM BLAKE (1 757-1 827) The Chimney Sweeper 129 The Garden of Love 130 A Poison Tree 794 The Tyger 130 JOHN BREHM (b. 1955) At the Poetry Reading 155 GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1 91 7—2000) from The Children of the Poor 410 ROBERT BROWNING (1 81 2-1 889) My Last Duchess 132 R0BERT BURNS (1 759-1 796) A Red, Red Rose 795 ROSEMARY CATACAI-OS (b. 1 944) David Talamåntez on the Last Day of Second Grade 147 VICTORIA CHANG (b. 1 961 ) Morning Porridge 1093 SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954) My Wicked Wicked Ways 1 54 LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936) There Is a Girl Inside 813 JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (b. 1952) Latin Women Pray 605 BILLY COLLINS (b. 1941) Sonnet 814 JUNE JORDAN (1 936-2002) Memo: 146 JENNY JOSEPH (b. 1932) Warning 41 1 MARY KARR (b. 1954) Revenge of the Ex-Mistress 823 JOHN KEATs (1 795-1 821) Ode on a Grecian Urn 1061 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer JANE KENYON (1 947-1 995) Surprise 81 6 CAROLYN (b. 1925) Bitch 805 ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1 931—1 991) 131 Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane 603 MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925) Jack 806 PHILIP LARKIN (1 922-1 985) A Study of Reading Habits This Be the Verse 142 EVELYN LAU (b. 1971) Solipsism 1 58 AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992) Power 811 ADRIAN C. LOUIS (b. 1946) 143 End Prayer for Mogie 1090 KATHARYN Howo MACHAN (b. 1952) Hazel Tells LaVerne 1 53 AIMEE MANN (b. 1960) Save Me 784 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1 564—1 593) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ANDREW MARVELL (1 621—1 678) To His Coy Mistress 792 KATHERINE Mc,ALPINE (b. 1948) Plus C'est la Méme Chose 1 52 J. D. MCCLATCHY (b. 1945) J 41 CLAUDE MCKAY (1890—1948) lfWe Must Die 406 PETER MEINKE (b. 1932) Advice to My Son 144 ROBERT MIE7FY (b. 1935) My Mother 145 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1 892-1 950) Love Is Not All 799 JANICE MIRIKITANI (b. 1942) Suicide Note 1088 FELIX MNTHALI (b. 1933) The Stranglehold of English Lit. 71 3 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1 689—1 762) song 793 SUSAN MUSGRAVE (b. 1951 ) Right through the Heart 81 9 TASLIMA NASRIN (b. 1962) Things Cheaply Had 608 PABLO NERUDA (1904—1 973) The Dead Woman 1081 SHARON OLDS (b. 1 942) Sex without Love 81 5 MARY OLIVER (b. 1935) When Death Comes 1086 WILFRED OWEN (1 893-1 91 8) Dulce et Decorum Est 1079 DOROTHY PARKER (1 893-1 967) One Perfect Rose 799 M0LLY PEACOCK (b. 1947) Our Room 151 sayyou Love Me 816 MARGE PIERCY (b. 1 936) The market economy 414 SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1 963) Daddy 808 Po CHU-I (772-846) Golden Bells 772 Remembering Golden Bells 773 WYATT PRUNTY (b. 1947) Learning the Bicycle 818 SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1 552-1 61 8) The Nymph's Reply to the ShepherdDUDLEY RANDALL (b. 1 914) Ballad of Birmingham 409 HENRY REED (1 914-1986) Naming of Parts 600 ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929) Living in Sin 807 EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1 869— Miniver Cheevy 400 Richard cory 1075 THEODORE ROETHKE (1 908—1 963) Elegy for Jane 082 I Knew a Woman 801 My Papa's Waltz 800 MURIEL RUKEYSER (1 913—1 980) ABBAS SAFARI (b. 1951) Our story 957 SAPPHO (ca. 610—ca. 580 B.c.) With His Venom 772 ANNE SEXTON (1928—1974) The starry Night 1071 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1 564-1 61 6) Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun from Hamlet 1059 from Macbeth 1058 from Richard II 1058 It Was a Lover and His Lass 780 GARY SOTO (b. 1952) Oranges 820 Worr SOYINKA (b. 1934) Telephone Conversation 604 WALLACE STEVENS (1 879-1955) Sunday Morning 402 SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1 609—1 640) song 783 WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (b. 1 923) First Love 804 ALFRED, Low TENNYSON (1809-1 892) Ulysses 394 DYLAN THOMAS (1 91 4-1 953) Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night EDMUND WALLER (1 606-1 687) Go, Lovely Rose! 791 PHILLIs WHEATLEY (1 753-1 784) On Being Brought from Africa to America WALT WHITMAN (1 81 9-1 892) from Song of Myself 795 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1 770-1 850) The World Is Too Much with Us 393 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1 865-1939) Easter 1916 397 The Great Day 400 Leda and the Swan 137 Politics 798 Sailing to Byzantium 1065 The Second Coming 399 YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO (b. 1 933) People 1085 TAWFIQ ZAYYAD (1 932-1 994) Here We Shall Stay 412 DRAMA WOODY ALLEN (b. 1935) Death Knocks 1095 SUSAN GLASPELL (1 882-1 948) Trifles 91 6 LORRAINE HANSBERRY (1930—1965) A Raisin in the Sun 609 Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" 786 Sonnet 29 "VVhen, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" 786 Sonnet 73 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" Sonnet 129 "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1 792—1 822) Ozymandias 1060 CHARLES SIMIC (b. 1938) My Weariness of Epic Proportions 41 5 STEVIE SMITH (1 902—1 971 ) Not Waving but Drowning 140 CATHY SONG (b. 1955) Stamp Collecting 607 HELEN SORRELLS (b. 1908) From a Correct Address in a Suburb of a Major City HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1 906) A Doll's House 423 ARTHUR MILLER (1 91 5-2005) [Death of a Salesman](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66346W) SANCHEZ-SCOTT (b. 1955) The Cuban Swimmer 1 03 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1 564-1 616) Othello 824 SOPHOCLES B.c.) Oedipus Rex 60 ESSAYS MAYA ANGELOU (b. 1928) Graduation in Stamps 700 JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (b. 1952) American History 292 BERNARD COOPER (b. 1951) A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood E. L. DOCTOROW (b. 1931) Why We Are Infidels 514 JOHN DONNE (1 572-1 631) Meditation XVII, from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions 1 1 16 ERICH FROMM (1900—1980) Is Love an Art? 932 ABEER HOQUE (b. 1973) Ironed Blue Sky, 880F 710 LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) Salvation 281 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (1 929-1968) 284 SALMAN RUSHDIE (b. 1947) "Imagine There's No Heaven": A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen 517 JONATHAN SWIFT (1 667-1 745) A Modest Proposal 482 MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) Little Bessie Would Assist Providence 1 1 1 8 VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) What If Shakespeare Had Had a Sister? 685 ART RIZA 'ABBASI Two Lovers 720 FERNANDO BOTERO Pedro 76 PIETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1 068 VINCENT VAN GOGH The starry Night 1072 FRANCISCO DE GOYA The Third of May, 1808, Madrid 1070 KEITH HARING Untitled 310 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI The Great Wave off Kanagawa 1074 JACOB LAWRENCE This Is Harlem 522 TAKASHI MURAKAMI Mushroom Bomb Pink 964 DOCUMENTS The Birmingham Truce Agreement 512 A Call for Unity from Alabama Clergymen 511 Letter from Birmingham Jail 490 MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (b. 1 940) No Name Woman 936 JESSICA MITFORD (1 91 7—1 996) The American Way of Death 1 121 Es'KiA MPHAHLELE (b. 191 9) African Literature: What Tradition? GEORGE ORWELL (1 903-1950) Shooting an Elephant 694 PAUL (d. ca. C.E. 64) I Corinthians 13 930 from Dred Scott v. Sandford 505 Jim Crow Laws 508 The U -S. Constitution, Amendment XIV 507 from The U.S. Constitution, Article l, Section 2