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"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
By Robert Herrick -
"To His Coy Mistress"
By Andrew Marvell -
"The Chimney Sweeper"
By William Blake -
"My Last Duchess"
By Robert Browning -
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
By Edgar Allan Poe -
"Young Goodman Brown"
By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also published in 1835. -
"My life had stood -- a loaded gun"
By Emily Dickinson -
"Jabberwocky"
By Lewis Carroll -
"The Story of an Hour"
By Kate Chopin -
The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde -
"When I was one-and-twenty"
By A.E. Housman -
"Richard Cory" Poem
By Edwin Arlington Robinson -
"The Gift of the Magi"
By O. Henry -
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World War I / "The Great War"
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"Fire and Ice"
By Robert Frost -
"A Rose for Emily"
By William Faulkner -
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World War II
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"The Lottery"
By Shirley Jackson -
"Root Cellar"
By Theodore Roethke -
"Battle Royal"
By Ralph Ellison. Original version published in 1948. Revised for The Invisible Man (1952) -
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
By Flannery O'Conner -
"Harrison Bergeron"
By Kurt Vonnegut -
"Richard Cory" Song
By Paul Simon -
"Everyday Use"
By Alice Walker -
"Tired Sex"
By Chana Bloch