- Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott”
- Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”
- Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
- Countee Cullen’s “Yet Do I Marvel”
- Grace Nichols’s “Epilogue”
- Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
- Langston Hughes’s “Harlem”
- Langston Hughes’s “I, Too”
- Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
- Langston Hughes’s “The Weary Blues”
- Mary Rowlandson’s “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Chapter 1)”
- Mary Rowlandson’s “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Chapter 20)”
- Nikki Giovanni’s “Linkage (for Phillis Wheatley)”
- Philip Freneau’s “On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country”
- Philip Freneau’s “On the Religion of Nature”
- Philip Freneau’s “The Indian Burying Ground”
- Philip Freneau’s “The Wild Honey Suckle”
- Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature (Chap. 1)”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature (Introduction)”