Glencoe World History: Modern Times

Unit 4: The Twentieth Century Crisis, 1914–1945

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Afro-American Fragment by Langston Hughes
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" by Thomas Hardy
All That You Have Given Me, Africa by Anoma Kanié
And Sarah Laughed by Joanne Greenberg
Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens
Any Human to Another by Countee Cullen
anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings
Araby by James Joyce
Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish
An Astrologer's Day by R. K. Narayan
Be Ye Men of Valor by Winston Churchill
Before the End of Summer by Grant Moss Jr.
Birches by Robert Frost
from Black Boy by Richard Wright
A black man talks of reaping by Arna Bontemps
The Blue Jar by Isak Dinesen
The Boar Hunt by José Vasconcelos
Breakfast by John Steinbeck
The Bridal Party by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Butterflies by Fawziyya Abu Khalid
By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
A Child, a Dog, the Night by Amalia Rendic
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner by Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen
The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai
Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
The Duke's Children by Fran O'Connor
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
from Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Elegy for a Woman of No Importance by Nazik al-Mala'ikah
Empty Seat by Yuan Qiongqiong
Ex–Basketball Player by John Updike
Exploring Antarctic Ice by Jane Ellen Stevens
from Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
February by Ralph Elison
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
Freedom to Breathe by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Full Moon Rhyme by Judith Wright
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face by James Weldon Johnson
The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
The Horned Toad by Gerald Haslam
How I Changed the War and Won the Game by Mary Helen Ponce
I, Too by Langston Hughes
If We Must Die by Claude McKay
In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway
In the terrible night by Fernando Pessoa
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
The Jay by Yasunari Kawabata
Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter
Kipling and I by Jesus Colon
from Kubota by Garrett Hongo
The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor
The Long Exile by Leo Tolstoy
Lot's Wife by Anna Akhmatova
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Mrs. James by Alice Childress
My City by James Weldon Johnson
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
from Night by Elie Wiesel
Night Clouds by Amy Lowell
Night of Sine by Léopold Sédar Senghor
November Cotton Flower by Jean Toomer
from Out Of Africa: The Iguana by Isak Dinesen
A Pact by Ezra Pound
The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry by Marianne Moore
Preludes by T. S. Eliot
from the Prison Diary: Autumn Night by Ho Chi Minh
Pulse of the Land by Hermel A. Nuyda
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Rain in My Heart by Edgar Lee Masters
Rainforest by Judith Wright
Reapers by Jean Toomer
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
Richness by Gabriela Mistral
River Bend by Judith Wright
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
The Rocking–Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
The Rockpile by James Baldwin
from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Saleswoman by Colette
The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
Soldiers of the Republic by Dorothy Parker
from Songs for Signare by Léopold Sédar Senghor
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem by Helene Johnson
The Sound of Birds at Noon by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Storm Ending by Jean Toomer
Suavidades/Serenity by Gabriela Mistral
Their Lonely Betters by W. H. Auden
This Is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman
To Da-duh, in Memoriam by Paule Marshall
To Satch by Samuel Allen
Tobermory by Saki
The Tropics in New York by Claude McKay
Tuesday Siesta by Gabrial García Márquez
Well, I Have Lost You; and I Lost You Fairly by Ena St. Vincent Millay
What I Have Been Doing Lately by Jamaica Kincaid
When I was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats
The Window by Jaime Torres Bodet
Winter Night by Kay Boyle
A Worn Path by Eudora Welty