The Top 150

The Holy Bible, King James Version Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot The Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot Familiar Quotations compiled by John Bartlett Invictus by William Ernest Henley Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Tiger by William Blake Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Trees by Joyce Kilmer Ode on Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth Selected Poetry by Robert Frost Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln Relativity by Albert Einstein She walks in Beauty by Lord Byron The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Invitations, Acceptances and Regrets from Etiquette by Emily Post A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft First Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Death be not proud by John Donne On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Stories from the Thousand and One Nights Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth Tradition and the Individual Talent by T.S. Eliot Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling Walt Whitman (Song of Myself) by Walt Whitman Respectfully Quoted Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins Fables by Aesop Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger Oedipus the King by Sophocles The Age of Fable, or Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch First Inaugural Address by George Washington When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d by Walt Whitman The Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman Common Sense by Thomas Paine Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman The King’s English by H.W. Fowler Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman When You are Old by William Butler Yeats Christmas Trees by Robert Frost In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein First Inaugural Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington Portrait of a Lady by T.S. Eliot Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins Fog by Carl Sandburg My heart leaps up when I behold by William Wordsworth Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare A Word for Autumn by A. A. Milne Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs. Bixby The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Rev. Alban Butler A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Substitution by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Prelude by William Wordsworth To the Virgins, to make much of Time by Robert Herrick Poems by Oscar Wilde On His Blindness by John Milton The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti Gerontion by T.S. Eliot To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Francis Bret Harte Hamlet and His Problems by T.S. Eliot Mending Wall by Robert Frost Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson Robert’s Rules of Order The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells When I have Fears that I may cease to be by John Keats The “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Speech by Patrick Henry The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats Selected Works by Sigmund Freud The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant The American Language by H.L. Mencken The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling Birches by Robert Frost The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson The Creation by James Weldon Johnson A Midsummer-Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Batter my heart, three person’d God by John Donne When the Frost is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay His Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke The World’s Famous Orations by William Jennings Bryan Political Debates between Lincoln and Douglas The Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Lotos-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson I cannot live with you by Emily Dickinson The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge The Cry for Justice by edited by Upton Sinclair Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations The Soldier by Rupert Brooke Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson A Dictionary of Similes The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe On the Art of Writing by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge