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Grades K-3

Poems (audios):

A Wise Old Owl A Word is Dead by Emily Dickinson
Beautiful Soup by Lewis CarrollCaterpillar by Christina Rossetti
Fame is a Bee by Emily DickinsonFirst Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis CarrollI'm Nobody by Emily Dickinson
Laughing Song by William BlakeMy Life Has Been the Poem by Henry David Thoreau
The Butter Betty Bought The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Grades 4-7

Poems (no audios):

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan PoeContentment by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fable by Ralph Waldo EmersonGood-Bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Captian! My Captain! by Walt WhitmanThe Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTo Helen by Edgar Allan Poe

Great Passages from Shakespeare (audios):

from As You Like It
Jaques:
All the . . .
from Hamlet
Hamlet:
To be, or not to b . . .
from Hamlet
Hamlet:
Alas, poor Yorick! . . .
from Hamlet
Hamlet:
What a . . .
from Macbeth
FIRST WITCH:
Round about t . . .
from Othello
Cassio:
I remember a mass . . .
from Romeo and Juliet
Romeo:
But soft! What ligh . . .
 

Grades 8-12

Great Passages from Literature (no audio)

from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the wor . . .
from Billy Budd by Herman Melville
With no power to annul the elemental evi . . .
from Dracula by Bram Stoker
"I have learned not to think little of a . . .
from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I . . .
from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
I don't like work--no man does, but I li . . .
from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
It is in vain to say human beings ought . . .
from Middlemarch by George Eliot
If we had a keen vision and feeling of a . . .
from The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The past was nothing to her; offered no . . .
from The Call of the Wild by Jack London
He was beaten (he knew that); but he was . . .
 

The Sonnets of Shakespeare (no audio):

Sonnet 1
From fairest creatures we desire increas . . .
Sonnet 100
Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st . . .
Sonnet 106
When in the chronicle of wasted time
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds . . .
Sonnet 2
When forty winters shall besiege thy bro . . .
Sonnet 29
When in disgrace with fortune and men's . . .
Sonnet 3
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou . . .
Sonnet 4
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spen . . .
Sonnet 40
Take all my loves, my love, yea take the . . .
Sonnet 5
Those hours, that with gentle work did f . . .
Sonnet 55
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Sonnet 6
VI

Then let not winter's ragged . . .

Sonnet 7
Lo! in the orient when the gracious ligh . . .
 

Defintions from
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (no audio)