Glencoe World History

Unit 4: An Era of European Imperialism, 1800–1914

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1996 by Rabindranath Tagore
And Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
Assembly Line by Shu Ting
Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
The Bet by Anton Chekhov
from Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by William Hauptman
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
The Bustle in a House by Emily Dickinson
The Californian's Tale by Mark Twain
A Canary's Ideas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron
from Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield
Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The Drover's Wife by Henry Lawson
The False Gems by Guy de Maupassant
Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters
The First Snow-Fall by James Russell Lowell
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Anonymous
For the Sake of a Single Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Gather Not Gold and Precious Stones by Edith Södergran
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Go Down, Moses by Anonymous
The Guitar by Federico García Lorca
from His Promised Land by John P. Parker
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
I heard a Fly buzz when I died by Emily Dickinson
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
I Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Joseph
If you were coming in the Fall by Emily Dickinson
from In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Inspector-General by Anton Chekhov
The Interlopers by Saki (H. H. Munro)
from The Introduction to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free by William Wordsworth
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
from The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth by Dorothy Wordsworth
The Kabuliwallah by Rabindranath Tagore
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
The Lamb by William Blake
Letters to His Family by Robert E. Lee
from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
The Long March by Mao Tse-tung
Lucinda Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
from Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut
The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Miss Youghal's Sais by Rudyard Kipling
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
Much Madness is divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson
from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
My life closed twice before its close by Emily Dickinson
from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Ode to the West Wind by Persy Bysshe Shelley
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
The Open Window by Saki
The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pain—has an Element of Blank— by Emily Dickinson
Picture Bride by Cathy Song
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
A Poison Tree by William Blake
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Ring by Isak Dinesen
The Ring of General Macías by Josephina Niggli
Russia 1812: from The Expiation by Victor Hugo
from Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Shiloh by Herman Melville
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim by Walt Whitman
Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
from Songs of Gold Mountain by Anonymous
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Soul selects her own Society by Emily Dickinson
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Success is counted sweetest by Emily Dickinson
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by Anonymous
Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
That Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump by Sherman Alexie
There's a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson
This is my letter to the World by Emily Dickinson
The Three-Piece Suit by Ali Deb
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
To Autumn by John Keats
To Build a Fire by Jack London
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Tselane and the Giant translated by B. L. Leshoai
Two Countries by José Martí
Two Memories of Sido: from Earthly Paradise by Colette
The Tyger by William Blake
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The United States vs. Susan B. Anthony by Margaret Truman
A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Waltz of the Fat Man by Alberto Alvaro Ríos
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
from West With the Night by Beryl Markham
What We Believe by Anita Endrezze
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother by Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross
A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett
The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth