Drama and Film

by Susan Glaspell

Trifles (search in COVE Texts)

by Mankiewisc, Herman J. and Orson Welles

Citizen Kane, third revised final script, with edits, deletions, and additions (search in COVE Texts)

by George Bernard Shaw (headnote available)

Mrs. Warren's Profession (search in COVE Texts)

Images

by Walt Whitman

LC #220 Whitman's Cardboard Butterfly, Undated; likely between 1850-1860, from the Library of Congress (search in COVE Images)

Manuscript

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Notes and Notebooks, 1847-1891; Notes, 1847-1891; Themes in Leaves of Grass, from the Library of Congress (search in COVE Images)

Poetry

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The Piazza of St. Mark at Midnight" (search in COVE Texts)

by Joel Barlow (headnote available)

from The Columbiad (search in COVE Texts)

by Gwendolyn Bennett

"Heritage" (search in COVE Texts)

by Louise Bennett

"Colonization in Reverse" (search in COVE Texts)

by William Cullen Bryant (headnote available)

"A Forest Hymn" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Prairies" (search in COVE Texts)
"To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe" (search in COVE Texts)
"To a Waterfowl" (search in COVE Texts)
"Thanatopsis" (search in COVE Texts)

by Bliss Carman (headnote available)

"A More Ancient Mariner" (search in COVE Texts)
"Low Tide on Grand Pré" (search in COVE Texts)
"By the Aurelian Wall" (search in COVE Texts)

by Christopher Pearse Cranch

"The Death of Shelley," Contemporary Response (search in COVE Texts)

by Emily Dickinson

"341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes—" (search in COVE Texts)
"712: Because I could not stop for Death—" (search in COVE Texts)
"1545: The Bible is an antique Volume—" (search in COVE Texts)
"970: Color—Caste—Denomination—" (search in COVE Texts)
"84: Her breast is fit for pearls" (search in COVE Texts)
"518: Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night" (search in COVE Texts)
"280: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (search in COVE Texts)
"465: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—" (search in COVE Texts)
"569: I reckon—When I count at all—" (search in COVE Texts)
"443: I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl—" (search in COVE Texts)
"435: Much Madness is divinest Sense" (search in COVE Texts)
"754: My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—" (search in COVE Texts)
"986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass" (search in COVE Texts)
"668: 'Nature' is what we see—" (search in COVE Texts)
"790: Nature—the Gentlest Mother is" (search in COVE Texts)
"709: Publication—is the Auction" (search in COVE Texts)
"216: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers [1; version B]" (search in COVE Texts)
"216: Safe in their Alabaster Chambers [1; version E]" (search in COVE Texts)
"303: The Soul selects her own Society—" (search in COVE Texts)
"1249: The Stars are old, that stood for me—" (search in COVE Texts)
"1129: Tell all the truth but tell it slant—" (search in COVE Texts)
"1593: There came a Wind like a Bugle—" (search in COVE Texts)
"613: They shut me up in prose—" (search in COVE Texts)
"441: This is my letter to the World" (search in COVE Texts)
"249: Wild nights—Wild nights!" (search in COVE Texts)

by Timothy Dwight

from "Greenfield Hill," Contemporary Response (search in COVE Texts)

by Philip Morin Freneau (headnote available)

"The Indian Burying Ground" (search in COVE Texts)
"Literary Importation" (search in COVE Texts)
"On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man" (search in COVE Texts)
"On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country" (search in COVE Texts)
"On the Religion of Nature" (search in COVE Texts)
"On the Uniformity and Perfection of Nature" (search in COVE Texts)
"On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Wild Honey Suckle" (search in COVE Texts)

by Fitz-greene Halleck

from "Burns," Contemporary Response (search in COVE Texts)
from "Fanny," Contemporary Response (search in COVE Texts)

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (headnote available)

"An Appeal to My Country Women" (search in COVE Texts)
"Free Labor" (search in COVE Texts)
"Learning to Read" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Slave Mother" (search in COVE Texts)

by James Weldon Johnson

"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (search in COVE Texts)
"Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Ressurection Day" (search in COVE Texts)

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (headnote available)

"The Arsenal at Springfield" (search in COVE Texts)
"Burial of the Minnisink" (search in COVE Texts)
"Chaucer" (search in COVE Texts)
"Keats" (search in COVE Texts)
"Milton" (search in COVE Texts)
"A Psalm of Life" (search in COVE Texts)
"Shakespeare" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Slave's Dream" (search in COVE Texts)
"To the Driving Cloud" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Village Blacksmith" (search in COVE Texts)

by Claude McKay

"The Harlem Dancer" (search in COVE Texts)

by Milcah Martha Moore (headnote available)

"The Female Patriots" (search in COVE Texts)

by Judith Sargent Murray (headnote available)

"On the Equality of the Sexes" (search in COVE Texts)

by Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (headnote available)

"Grasmere and Rydal Water" (search in COVE Texts)
"Felicia Hemans" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers" (search in COVE Texts)
"Niagara" (search in COVE Texts)
"Science and Religion" (search in COVE Texts)

by Henry David Thoreau (headnote available)

"Any fool can make a rule" (search in COVE Texts)
"Haze" (search in COVE Texts)
"I am the little Irish boy" (search in COVE Texts)
"I have seen some frozenfaced connecticut" (search in COVE Texts)
"In the busy streets, domains of trade" (search in COVE Texts)
"Ive seen ye, sisters, on the mountain-side" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Inward Morning" (search in COVE Texts)
"Poverty" (search in COVE Texts)
"Sic Vita" (search in COVE Texts)
"Sympathy" (search in COVE Texts)
"Wait not till slaves pronounce the word" (search in COVE Texts)

by Phillis Wheatley (headnote available)

"A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W." (search in COVE Texts)
"Liberty and Peace" (search in COVE Texts)
"On Being Brought from Africa to America" (search in COVE Texts)
"On Imagination" (search in COVE Texts)
"On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770." (search in COVE Texts)
"Thoughts on the Works of Providence" (search in COVE Texts)
"To a Lady on Her Coming to North America with Her Son, for the Recovery of Her Health" (search in COVE Texts)
"To His Excellency General Washington" (search in COVE Texts)
"To S.M. A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works" (search in COVE Texts)
"To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth" (search in COVE Texts)

by Walt Whitman

"Manahatta" (search in COVE Texts)
"O Captain! My captain" (search in COVE Texts)
"Song of Myself" (search in COVE Texts)

by John Greenleaf Whittier (headnote available)

"The Fisherman" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Hunters of Men" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Lumberman" (search in COVE Texts)
"Massachusetts to Virginia" (search in COVE Texts)

Prose

by Selim Aga/Agha

Africa Considered in Its Social and Political Condition (search in COVE Texts)
"A Trip Up the Congo or Zaire River" (search in COVE Texts)
"My Parentage and Early Career as a Slave" (search in COVE Texts)

by Rev. W.T. Andrews

A Waif (search in COVE Texts)

by Anon.

The Woman of Color, A Tale (search in COVE Texts)

by William Apess

"An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man" (search in COVE Texts)

by William Parsons Atkinson

Letter to Wordsworth (search in COVE Texts)

by E. F. Bonsall and Mabel Humphrey

Bonsall, E. F, Mabel Humphrey, and Juvenile Collection, The Book of the Cat: With Facsimiles of Drawings in Colour, New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Co, 1903, from the Library of Congress (search in COVE Images)

by William Stanley Braithwaite

"The Negro in American Literature" (search in COVE Texts)

by William Ellery Channing

from "Likeness to God" (search in COVE Texts)
from "Self-Culture" (search in COVE Texts)

by Charles W. Chesnutt

The Marrow of Tradition (search in COVE Texts)

by Kate Chopin

"A Pair of Silk Stockings" (search in COVE Texts)
"Beyond the Bayou" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Story of an Hour" (search in COVE Texts)
The Awakening (search in COVE Texts)

by James Fenimore Cooper (headnote available)

from The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna (search in COVE Texts)

by Susan Fenimore Cooper (headnote available)

"Otsego Leaves. Birds Then and Now" (search in COVE Texts)

by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur (headnote available)

from "Letters from an American Farmer" (search in COVE Texts)

by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (headnote available)

from "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species" (search in COVE Texts)

by Frederick Douglass (headnote available)

"The Heroic Slave" (search in COVE Texts)
"Letter to the Editor of The Times" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro: Speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852" (search in COVE Texts)

by W.E.B. Dubois

The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (search in COVE Texts)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson (headnote available)

"The American Scholar" (search in COVE Texts)
"Nature" (search in COVE Texts)

by Rudolph Fisher

"The City of Refuge" (search in COVE Texts)
"Vestiges" (search in COVE Texts)

by Benjamin Franklin (headnote available)

"Information to Those Who Would Remove to America" (search in COVE Texts)
"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (search in COVE Texts)
"Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One" (search in COVE Texts)

by John Frost

An illuminated history of North America, from the earliest period to the present time ... with a complete history of the United States, 1860, from the Library of Congress (search in COVE Images)

by Margaret Fuller (headnote available)

"The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women." (search in COVE Texts)
from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (search in COVE Texts)
"Things and Thoughts in Europe, No. XVIII" (search in COVE Texts)

by William Lloyd Garrison (headnote available)

"To the Public" (search in COVE Texts)

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Yellow Wall-Paper" (search in COVE Texts)

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (search in COVE Texts)

by Nathaniel Hawthorne (headnote available)

"The Birth-mark" (search in COVE Texts)
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (search in COVE Texts)
"P's Correspondence" (search in COVE Texts)

by Frederic Hedge

from "Coleridge," Contemporary Response (search in COVE Texts)

by Clemence Housman

The Were Wolf (search in COVE Texts)

by Charles Benjamin Hopkins

Charles Benjamin, A Dog's Life by Tige: Army Cartoons and Comic History of Our Boys in France, Toledo, OH.: Eoff-Sewell co, 1919, from the Library of Congress (search in COVE Images)

by Isaac Hunt (headnote availale)

"The Political Family" (search in COVE Texts)

by Zora Neale Hurston

"Characteristics of Negro Expression" (search in COVE Texts)

by Washington Irving (headnote available)

" English Writers on America" (search in COVE Texts)
"Rip Van Winkle" (search in COVE Texts)

by Andrew Jackson (headnote availale)

"Message of the President of the United States to Both Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Twenty-First Congress, December 7, 1830" (search in COVE Texts)

by Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (search in COVE Texts)

by Thomas Jefferson (headnote availale)

"from Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence)" (search in COVE Texts)
from "Notes on the State of Virginia" (search in COVE Texts)

by James Weldon Johnson

"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (search in COVE Texts)

by Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (search in COVE Texts)

by Fanny Kemble

from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 (search in COVE Texts)

by Nella Larsen

Passing (search in COVE Texts)

by Alain Locke

"Negro Youth Speaks" (search in COVE Texts)
"The New Negro" (search in COVE Texts)

by James Madison (headnote availale)

"The Federalist. Number 10" (search in COVE Texts)

by George Perkins Marsh (headnote availale)

from Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (search in COVE Texts)

by John Marrant (headnote availale)

from "A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black" (search in COVE Texts)

by Harriet Martineau (headnote availale)

from Society in America (search in COVE Texts)

by Thomas d'Arcy McGee (headnote availale)

"The Mental Outfit of the New Dominion" (search in COVE Texts)

by Herman Melville

“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (search in COVE Texts)
Moby Dick, New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1922, from the Library of Congress (search in COVE Images)

by Charles King Newcomb (headnote availale)

"The Two Dolons" (search in COVE Texts)

by Andrews Norton (headnote availale)

from "Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity" (search in COVE Texts)

by Samson Occom (headnote availale)

"S. Occom's Account of Himself Written Sept. 17, 1768" (search in COVE Texts)

by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (headnote availale)

from "Letter to Wordsworth" (search in COVE Texts)
from A Glimpse of Christ's Idea of Society (search in COVE Texts)

by Edgar Allen Poe

"Annabel Lee" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (search in COVE Texts)
"Ligeia" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Man of the Crowd" (search in COVE Texts)
"The Raven" (search in COVE Texts)
"Sonnet—To Science" (search in COVE Texts)
"Ulalume—a Ballad" (search in COVE Texts)

by Mary Prince

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself (search in COVE Texts)
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself, excerpt (search in COVE Texts)

by Henry Reed (headnote availale)

from "Lectures on the British Poets" (search in COVE Texts)

by Sophia Ripley (headnote availale)

"Woman" (search in COVE Texts)

by Susanna Rowson (headnote availale)

from "Charlotte: A Tale of Truth" (search in COVE Texts)

by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (headnote availale)

from Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (search in COVE Texts)

by Sharpe's London Journal (headnote availale)

"Emerson's Representative Men," Contemporary Response (search in COVE Texts)

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (headnote available)

"Declaration of Sentiments" (search in COVE Texts)
"Resolutions" (search in COVE Texts)

by Henry David Thoreau (headnote available)

"Resistance to Civil Government" (search in COVE Texts)
"Walking" (search in COVE Texts)

The Times, published in

Editorial and Letters to the Editor, Contemporary Response re: Frederick Douglass (search in COVE Texts)

by Jean Toomer

Cane (search in COVE Texts)
"Carma," from Cane (search in COVE Texts)

by Sojourner Truth (headnote available)

"Speech at the American Equal Rights Association", May 9–10, 1867 (search in COVE Texts)

by David Walker (headnote available)

"An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" (search in COVE Texts)

by Eric Walrond

Tropic Death (search in COVE Texts)

by Phillis Wheatley (headnote available)

"Letter to Rev. Samson Occom, New London, Connecticut" (search in COVE Texts)
"Letter from Phillis Wheatley to David Wooster, 18 October 1773"  (search in COVE Texts)