This collection contains:
The most dangerous game / Richard Connell
Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff
The destructors / Graham Greene
How I met my husband / Alice Munro
Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
Everyday use / Alice Walker
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux
The darling / Anton Chekhov
A worn path / Eudora Welty
Once upon a time / Nadine Gordimer
Paul's case / Willa Cather
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The jilting of Granny Wetherall / Katherine Anne Porter
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The drunkard / Frank O'Connor
Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood
The guest / Albert Camus
Roman fever / Edith Wharton
A new leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Civil peace / Chinua Achebe
The swimmer / John Cheever
The story of an hour / Kate Chopin
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell
The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale hurston
The real thing / Henry James
Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
A & P / John Updike
The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Winter / William Shakespeare
Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare
The whipping / Robert Hayden
The last night that she lived / Emily Dickinson
Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall
Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman
Archibald MacLeish
The man he killed / Thomas Hardy
A study of reading habits / Philip Larkin
Is my team plowing / A.E. Housman
Break of day / John Donne
There's been a death, in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson
When in Rome / Mari Evans
Animals are passing from our lives / Philip Levine
Question / May Swenson
Mirror / Sylvia Plath
The clod and the pebble / William Blake
Ethics / Linda Pastan
Storm warnings / Adrienne Rich.
There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson
When my love swears she is made of truth / William Shakespeare
Pathedy of manners / Ellen Kay
Naming of parts / Henry Reed
Cross / Langston Hughes
The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth
Desert places / Robert Frost
Let no charitable hope / Elinor Wylie
A hymn to God the Father / John Donne
One art / Elizabeth Bishop
35/10 / Sharon Olds
Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / Robert Browning
Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins
The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams
The man with night sweats / Thom Gunn
I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson
Living in sin / Adrienne Rich
The forge / Seamus Heaney
After apple-picking / Robert Frost
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
An August night / Seamus Heaney
The snow man / Wallace Stevens / To autumn / John Keats
Harlem / Langston Hughes
Bereft / Robert Frost
It sifts from leaden sieves / Emily Dickinson
The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet
The telephone / Maya Angelou
Bright star / John Keats
Mind / Richard Wilbur
I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson
Metaphors / Sylvia Plath
Toads / Philip Larkin
Ghost of a chance / Adrienne Rich
A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins
The road not taken / Robert Frost
A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman
The sick rose / William Blake
Digging / Seamus Heaney
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick
Peace / George Herbert
The writer / Richard Wilbur
Fire and ice / Robert Frost
Up-hill / Christina Rossetti
Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman
Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson
Hymn to God my God, in my sickness / John Donne
Weighing the dog / Billy Collins
Ulysses / Alfred. Lord Tennyson
Much madness is divinest sense/ Emily Dickinson
The sun rising / John Donne
Incident / Countee Cullen
Barbie doll / Marge Piercy
The chimney sweeper / William Blake
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lady luncheon club / Maya Angelou
Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne
Sorting laundry / Elisavietta Ritchie
The history teacher / Billy Collins
Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney
A considerable speck / Robert Frost
The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden
in the inner city / Lucille Clifton
My last duchess / Robert Browning
"Out, out" / Robert Frost
"She should have died hereafter" / William Shakespeare
in Just / e.e. cummings
Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen
On his blindness / John Milton
Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
My son the man / Sharon Olds
Siren song / Margaret Atwood
Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot
Little Jack Horner / Anonymous
Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
The rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Design / Robert Frost
I never saw a moor / Emily Dickinson
"Faith" is a fine invention / Emily Dickinson
On the sonnet / John Keats
Sonnet / Billy Collins
The lamb ; The tiger / William Blake
The indifferent / John Donne
Love's deity / John Donne
My number / Billy Collins
I had heard it's a fight / Edwin Denby.
For a lamb / Richard Eberhart
Apparently with no surprise / Emily Dickinson
Since there's no help / Michael Drayton
Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins
My mistress' eyes / William Shakespeare
Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The oxen / Thomas Hardy
One dignity delays for all ; 'Twas warm-at first-like us / Emily Dickinson
The apparition ; The flea / John Donne
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
Church going / Philip Larkin
The turtle / Ogden Nash
That night when joy began / W.H. Auden
The waking / Theodore Roethke
God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Wlliam Shakespeare
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
Woman work / Maya Angelou
Rite of passage / Sharon Olds
As imperceptibly as grief / Emily Dickinson
Music lessons / Mary Oliver
Traveling through the dark / William Stafford
Thistles / Ted Hughes
Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost
Virtue / George Herbert
"Introduction" to Songs of innocence / William Blake
Had I the choice / Walt Whitman
The aim was song / Robert Frost
Stanzas / George Gordon, Lord Byron
Old ladies' home / Sylvia Plath
Africa / Maya Angelou
To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan
A blessing / James Wright
Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning
Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Eight o'clock / A.E. Housman
Sound and sense / Alexander Pope
I heard a fly buzz-when I died / Emily Dickinson
Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen
Landcrab / Margaret Atwood
Tree at my window / Robert Frost
Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich
At the round earth's imagined corners / John Donne
Blackberry eating / Galway Kinnell
The health-food diner / Maya Angelou
The dance / William Carlos Williams
The pulley / George Herbert
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
That time of year / William Shakespeare
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
From Romeo and juliet / William Shakespeare
Death, be not proud / John Donne
The sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The white city / Claude McKay
America / Claude McKay
We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton / Kim Addonizio
Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost
In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / T.S. Eliot
Villanelle for an anniversary / Seamus Heaney
The house on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson
These are the days when birds come back / Emily Dickinson
Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick
Still to be near / Ben Jonson
The canonization / John Donne
Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
Home burial / Robert Frost.
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
Sunday mornig / Wallace Stevens
The weary blues / Langston Hughes
The fish / Elizabeth Bishop
Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich
Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden
Main character / Jimmy Santiago Baca
On her loving two equally / Aphra Behn
On reading poems to a senior class at South High / D.C. Berry
Manners / Elizabeth Bishop
Sadie and Maud ; a song in the front yard ; Tornado at Talladega / Gwendolyn Brooks
Combing / Gladys Cardiff
To the ladies / Mary, Lady Chudleigh
good times / Lucille Clifton
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Voyages / Hart Crane
War is kind / Stephen Crane
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; Spring is like a perhaps hand / e. e. cummings
A light exists in spring ; A narrow fellow in the grass; I died for beauty-but was scarce ; I like a look of agony / Emily Dickinson
The good-morrow ; Song: Go and catch a falling star / John Donne
Nexus ; Persephone, falling / Rita Dove
Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Christ climbed down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The colonel / Carolyn Forché
Birches ; Mending wall ; Once by the Pacific / Robert Frost
A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg
From the wave / Thom Gunn
Snow White and the seven deadly sins / R.S. Gwynn
On the death of a child / Daniel Halpern
Channel firing ; The darkling thrush ; Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy
Follower / Seamus Heaney
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman
Aunt Sue's stories ; Negro servant / Langston Hughes
The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell
To Celia / Ben Jonson
Warning / Jenny Joseph
Men at forty / Donald Justice
La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to a nightingale ; To one who has been long in city pent / John Keats
Aubade / Philip Larkin
The blind man's house at the edge of the cliff / Denise Levertov
To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace
Puberty / William Matthews
Silence / Marianne Moore
Dim lady / Harryette Mullen
I go back to May 1937 ; The planned child ; The victims / Sharon Olds
Résumé / Dorothy Parker
A work of artifice / Marge Piercy
Mad girl's love song ; Spinster ; Wuthering Heights / Sylvia Plath
Epigram from the French / Alexander Pope
Salutation / Ezra Pound
Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom
Poetry: I / Adrienne Rich
The mill ; Mr. Flood's party ; Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson
I knew a woman ; My papa's waltz ; Root cellar / Theodore Roethke
Young / Anne Sexton
Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare
Watermelons / Charles Simic
Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith
Small town with one road / Gary Soto
One day I wrote her name upon the sand / Edmund Spenser
Anecdote of the jar ; The course of a particular ; The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens.
A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
The virgins / Derek Walcott
To a stranger ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Whoever you are holding me now in hand / Walt Whitman
The Critic / C/ K. Williams
Poem ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams
The slow Pacific swell ; A summer commentary / Yvor Winters
I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth
The lake isle of Innisfree ; Sailing to Byzantium ; The second coming ; The wild swans at Coole / William Butler Yeats
Trifles / Susan Glaspell
The stronger / August Strindberg
Beauty / Jane Martin
Tape /José Rivera
POOF! / Lynn Nottage
The sandbox / Edward Albee
Time flies / David Ives
A doll house / Hendrik Ibsen
The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams
Los vendidos / Luis Valdez
Oedipus Rex / Sophocles
Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare
Tartuffe / Molière
Am I blue / Beth Henley
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller
A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare
Fences / August Wilson
André's mother / Terrence McNally.