Once more to the lake / E.B. White --
Wuthering Heigts / Emily Bronte --
Wind and Silver / Amy Lowell --
OZymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
The Ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --
The Kitchen / Alfred Kazin --
The Eagle / Alfred Lord Tennyson --
To Autumn / John Keats --
Snow toward Evening / Melville Cane --
Marrakech / George Orwell --
A Wagner matinee / Willa Cathers --
Native son / Richard Wright --
Incident / Countee Cullen --
"In just" Spring / E.E. Cummings --
Winter in the Blood / James Welch --
The Chimney Sweeper / William Blake --
There's been a death in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson --
Araby / James Joyce --
Salvation / Langston Hughes --
The Tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
My father's life / Raymond Carver --
Family ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston --
Courtship through the ages / James Thurber --
There was a child went fourth / Walt Whitman --
Nobody loses all the time / E.E. Cummings --
I discover Moses and the bulrushers / Mark Twain --
The Rose family / Robert Frost --
My Last duchess / Robert Browning --
Barter / Sara Teasdale --
Good times / Lucill Clifton --
From the Poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall --
Camping out / Ernest Hemingway --
Words every quarter of an hour / Anthony Trollope --
The Creation / Ovid --
Crumbling is not an instant's act / Emily Dickinson --
Economy / Henry David Thoreau --
The Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
The Baby Myna / Ved Mehta --
The Gold worker / Camara Laye --
Shakespeare's gifted sister / Virginia Woolf --
The Secret Sharer / Joseph Conrad --
The Ruined maid / Thomas Hardy --
Mother to son / Langston Hughes --
Two Diseases / Susan Sontag --
The Allegory of the cave / Plato --
My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare --
Very like a whale / Ogden Nash --
Fire and Ice / Robert Frost --
A comparison / Sylvia Plath --
A Slow walk of trees / Toni Morrison --
Politics and the english language / George Orwell --
Thinking as a hobby / William Golding --
The Girls in their summer dresses / Irwin Shaw --
Do not go gentle into the good night / Dylan Thomas --
Naming of parts / Henry Reed --
Ecclesiastes --
from The Art of fiction / Henry James --
"Kinds of fiction: A Reply to Mr. James" / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The National Heartbeat: "We-ness" and "Me-ness" / Malcolm Cowley --
The Unhappy American way / Bertrand Russell --
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin --
Ace in the hole / John Updike --
Dream Deferred / Langston Hughes --
Richard Corey / Edward Arlington Robinson --
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles --
When my love swears that she is made of truth / William Shakespeare --
To Build a fire / Jack London --
On warts / Lewis Thomas --
Gifts / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. / Carson McCullers --
Primer Lesson / Carl Sandburg --
The Naked and the nude / Robert Graves --
A politician / E.E. Cummings --
A former good guy and his friends / Joseph Epstein --
Axolotl / Julio Cortazar --
Poetry / Marianne Moore --
Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish --
The Tiger / William Blake --
Complexion / Richard Rodriguez --
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. --
Preface to Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad --
A Modest proposal / Jonathan Swift --
Put money in thy purse / William Shakespeare --
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell --
Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen --
Love is a fallacy / Max Shulman --
Claiming an education / Adrienne Rich --
On Liberty / John Stuart Mill.