On deck
To consider
Various authors
- https://americanliterature.com/short-short-stories
- https://americanliterature.com/author/hh-munro-saki/short-story/clovi...
- https://www.shortstoryguide.com/public-domain-short-stories/
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10135
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34089
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1221
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(poem)
- HH Munro (Saki) - “The Lumber-Room”, “The Open Window”
- https://interestingliterature.com/2017/05/the-10-best-saki-stories-ev...
- O. Henry - “The Gift of the Magi”
- https://interestingliterature.com/2021/12/best-o-henry-short-stories/
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Door_in_the_Wall
- https://mgherron.com/2021/02/10-best-sci-fi-short-stories-public-domain/
- https://mgherron.com/2022/04/sci-fi-short-story-hall-of-mirrors-fredr...
- https://mgherron.com/2022/12/selling-point-sci-fi-short-story/
- https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-man-who-could-...
- https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/a-friend-of-napoleon
- https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/a-reputation
- https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/lamb-to-the-slaughter
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47389/the-step-mother
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46650/the-twins-56d22698c349e
- https://www.best-poems.net/dorothy_parker/plea.html
- https://internetpoem.com/dorothy-parker/fighting-words-poem/
- https://poemotopia.com/james-shirley/death-the-leveller/
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus
- “Charles”, Shirley Jackson
Geoffrey Chaucer
- miller (5,430 words)
- reeve (3,629 words)
- cook (830 words)
- prioress (2,080 words)
- thopas (1,268 words)
- physician (2,249 words)
- friar (3,351 words)
- https://english3.fsu.edu/canterbury/
- https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/knights-tale-0
- https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/CanterburyTalesII.php
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2383
born: 1 January 1343, London, England
died: 25 October 1400, London, England
Edmund Spenser
born: 1 January 1552, London, England
died: 13 January 1599, London, England
Walter Raleigh
born: 22 January 1552, Hayes Barton, East Budleigh, Devon, England
died: 29 October 1618, London, England
Christopher Marlowe
born: 26 February 1564, Canterbury, Kent, England
died: 30 May 1593, Deptford, Kent, England
William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- A lover’s complaint (2,231 words)
- The passionate pilgrim (1,417 words)
- The phoenix and the turtle (287 words)
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/sonnet-lxxi-no-longer-mourn-m...
born: 15 April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
died: 23 April 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
John Donne
born: 22 January 1572, London, England
died: 31 March 1631, London, England
John Milton
born: 9 December 1608, London, England
died: 8 November 1674, London, England
Andrew Marvell
born: 31 March 1621, Winestead, England
died: 16 August 1678, London, England
Jonathan Swift
born: 30 November 1667, Dublin, Ireland
died: 19 October 1745, Dublin, Ireland
Alexander Pope
born: 21 May 1688, London, England
died: 30 May 1744, Twickenham, Middlesex, England
William Blake
born: 28 November 1757, Soho, London, England
died: 12 August 1827, Charing Cross, London, England
William Wordsworth
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/complaint
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/she-dwelt-among-untrodden-ways
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/scorn-not-sonnet
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45527/lines-composed-a-few-mil...
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/ode-intimations-immortality-r...
born: 7 April 1770, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
died: 23 April 1850, Rydal, Westmorland, England
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
born: 21 October 1772, Ottery St Mary, Devon, England
died: 25 July 1834, Highgate, Middlesex, England
Washington Irving
George Gordon Byron
born: 22 January 1788, London, England
died: 19 April 1824, Missolonghi, Aetolia, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
born: 4 August 1792, Warnham, West Sussex, England
died: 8 July 1822, Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
John Keats
- La belle dame sans merci
- To autumn
- To one who has been long in city pent
- To sleep
- When I have fears that I may cease to be
- On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
- On sitting down to read King Lear once again
- “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art”
- Ode on a Grecian urn
- Ode on indolence
- Ode on melancholy
- Ode to a nightingale
- Ode to psyche
- Modern love
born: 31 October 1795, London, England
died: 23 February 1821, Rome, Papal States
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- https://interestingliterature.com/2021/04/best-nathaniel-hawthorne-no...
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512
- The Birthmark (6,342 words)
- Young Goodman Brown (5,158 words)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
born: 6 March 1806, Coxhoe, County Durham, England
died: 29 June 1861, Florence, Kingdom of Italy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
born: 27 February 1807, Portland, Maine, US
died: 24 March 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Edgar Allan Poe
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46477/alone-56d2265f2667d
- https://poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death/
- masque (2,380 words)
- https://poemuseum.org/the-cask-of-amontillado/
- cask (2,218 words)
born: 19 January 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, US
died: 7 October 1849, Baltimore, Maryland, US
Edward FitzGerald
Alfred Tennyson
born: 6 August 1809, Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
died: 6 October 1892, Lurgashall, Sussex, England
Oliver Wendell Holmes
born: 29 August 1809, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
died: 7 October 1894, Boston, Massachusetts, US
Charles Dickens
- The Signal-Man (4,960 words)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1289
born: 7 February 1812, Portsmouth, England
died: 9 June 1870, Higham, Kent, England
Robert Browning
- Childe Roland to the dark tower came
- A face
- The laboratory
- My last duchess
- The pied piper of Hamelin
- Porphyria’s lover
- The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
- Home-thoughts, from abroad
- The lost mistress
- Andrea del Sarto
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- Love among the ruins
- Abt Vogler
- Confessions
- https://allpoetry.com/A-Light-Woman
- https://englishverse.com/poems/the_last_ride_together
- https://allpoetry.com/A-Pretty-Woman
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50300/the-real-and-true-and-sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summum_Bonum_(poem)
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43773/prospice
born: 7 May 1812, London, England
died: 12 December 1889, Venice, Kingdom of Italy
Walt Whitman
born: 31 May 1819, West Hills, New York, US
died: 26 March 1892, Camden, New Jersey, US
George Eliot
born: 22 November 1819, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
died: 22 December 1880, Chelsea, London, England
Matthew Arnold
born: 24 December 1822, Laleham, England
died: 15 April 1888, Liverpool, England
George Meredith
born: 12 February 1828, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
died: 18 May 1909, Box Hill, Surrey, England
Christina Rossetti
born: 5 December 1830, London, England
died: 29 December 1894, London, England
Emily Dickinson
born: 10 December 1830, Amherst, Massachusetts, US
died: 15 May 1886, Amherst, Massachusetts, US
Lewis Carroll
born: 27 January 1832, Cheshire, England
died: 14 January 1898, Surrey, England
Mark Twain
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61522
- The £1,000,000 bank-note (8,049 words), and other new stories
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/142
- The $30,000 Bequest (10,541 words), and Other Stories
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3251
- “My first lie, and how i got out of it” (3,160 words), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (17,135 words), and Other Stories
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3186
- The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3189
- Sketches New and Old
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3184
- Alonzo Fitz (6,543 words), and Other Stories
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10947
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (2,499 words)
- https://harpers.org/archive/1912/12/my-platonic-sweetheart/
- https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/my-first...
- https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/mark-twain-buying-gloves-in...
Thomas Hardy
- The darkling thrush
- The man he killed
- Something tapped
- Thoughts of Phena
- The to-be-forgotten
- Neutral tones
- In tenebris
- Drummer Hodge
- The self-unseeing
- The vampirine fair
- The voice
- The ruined maid
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/masked-face
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3056
- Wessex Tales
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3047
- Life's Little Ironies
born: 2 June 1840, Dorset, England
died: 11 January 1928, Dorset, England
Ambrose Bierce
William Ernest Henley
born: 23 August 1849, Gloucester, England
died: 11 July 1903, Woking, England
Kate Chopin
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/160
- A respectable woman
Oscar Wilde
- The happy prince
- The nightingale and the rose
- The sphinx without a secret
- Her voice
- My voice
- Requiescat
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/773
- The model millionaire (1,941 words)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1057
- The ballad of Reading Gaol (3,788 words)
- https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2014/09/wilde-poems-in-prose/
born: 16 October 1854, Dublin, Ireland
died: 30 November 1900, Paris, France
Arthur Conan Doyle
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661
- http://www.bestofsherlock.com/story/storyhm.htm
- https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-a...
- The Speckled Band (9,551 words)
- The Red-Headed League (8,886 words)
- A Scandal in Bohemia (8,261 words)
born: 22 May 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland
died: 7 July 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
born: 3 July 1860, Hartford, Connecticut, US
died: 17 August 1935, Pasadena, California, US
E. Pauline Johnson
born: 10 March 1861, Six Nations, Ontario, Canada
died: 7 March 1913, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Archibald Lampman
William Lawrence Chittenden
- What is life?
born: 23 March 1862, Montclair, New Jersey, US
died: 24 September 1934, New York, US
William Butler Yeats
- Aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven
- All things can tempt me
- Never give all the heart
- The second coming
- What then?
- When you are old
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/scholars
- A Prayer for my Daughter (especially stanza three)
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/prayer-my-daughter
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/choice-0
born: 13 June 1865, Sandymount, Ireland
died: 28 January 1939, Menton, France
Charlotte Mew
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55327/from-a-window-56d236cf6e332
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55328/not-for-that-city
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51731/the-trees-are-down
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55331/ken
- “On the road to the sea”
- https://poets.org/poem/road-sea
born: 15 November 1869, Bloomsbury, London, England
died: 24 March 1928, Westminster, London, England
Paul Laurence Dunbar
born: 27 June 1872, Dayton, Ohio, US
died: 9 February 1906, Dayton, Ohio, US
Amy Lowell
born: 9 February 1874, Brookline, Massachusetts, US
died: 12 May 1925, Brookline, Massachusetts, US
Robert Frost
- Acquainted with the night
- The aim was song
- Fire and ice
- The flood
- Reluctance
- The road not taken
- Sting
- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
- Love and a question
- After apple-picking
- The sound of the trees
- Not to keep
- For once, then, something
- Gathering leaves
- The need of being versed in country things
- Sitting by a bush in broad sunlight
- https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/frostr-westrunningbrook/frostr-westrunnin...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birches_(poem)
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148651/in-a-disused-graveyard
- https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/tuft-flowers
- https://poets.org/poem/good-hours
- https://poets.org/poem/kitchen-chimney
- https://poets.org/poem/girls-garden
born: 26 March 1874, San Francisco, California, US
died: 29 January 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, US
Jack London
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2429
- To build a fire (7,042 words)
John Masefield
born: 1 June 1878, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
died: 12 May 1967, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Wallace Stevens
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination_of_Black
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Man
- https://allpoetry.com/Another-Weeping-Woman
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_et_la_Belle_Etoile
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_High-Toned_Old_Christian_Woman
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Place_of_the_Solitaires
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_(poem)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Shifts
born: 2 October 1879, Reading, Pennsylvania, US
died: 2 August 1955, Hartford, Connecticut, US
Edgar Albert Guest
born: 20 August 1881, Birmingham, England
died: 5 August 1959, Detroit, Michigan, US
P. G. Wodehouse
James Joyce
born: 2 February 1882, Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
died: 13 January 1941, Zürich, Switzerland
Kahlil Gibran
born: 6 January 1883, Bsharri, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Syria, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Lebanon)
died: 10 April 1931, New York City, US
Sinclair Lewis
D. H. Lawrence
born: 11 September 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England
died: 2 March 1930, Vence, Alpes-Maritimes Department, France
Siegfried Sassoon
born: 8 September 1886, Kent, England
died: 1 September 1967, Wiltshire, England
H. P. Lovecraft
- https://americanliterature.com/author/h-p-lovecraft/short-story/the-t...
- The call of Cthulhu (11,754 words)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68283
- https://americanliterature.com/author/h-p-lovecraft/short-story/azathoth
- The Music of Erich Zann (3,448 words)
- https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-music-of-erich...
Agatha Christie
- The Adventure of “The Western Star” (6,918 words), Poirot Investigates
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61262
Edna St. Vincent Millay
born: 22 February 1892, Rockland, Maine, US
died: 19 October 1950, Austerlitz, New York, US
Dorothy Parker
born: 22 August 1893, Long Branch, New Jersey, US
died: 7 June 1967, New York City, US
e. e. cummings
- i like my body when it is with your
- La guerre II
- Spring is like a perhaps hand
- who knows if the moon’s
- i am a beggar always
- https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/four-xv/
- the moon looked into my window
- https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/four-i/
- since feeling is first
- https://cummings.ee/book/is-5/poem/four-vii/
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-y...
born: 14 October 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
died: 3 September 1962, Madison, New Hampshire, US
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tarquin of Cheapside (2,280)
- Jemina (1,490 words)
Ernest Hemingway
- In our time (1925)
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/In_Our_Time
- In our time (1924) (3,522 words)
- Three Stories & Ten Poems
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59603
- Men without women
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69683
Langston Hughes
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Weary_Blues
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Weary_Blues/The_Negro_Speaks_of_Ri...
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-...
- Maybe “Let America Be America Again” is not public domain in US.
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Weary_Blues/Mother_to_Son
born: 1 February 1901, Joplin, Missouri, US
died: 22 May 1967, New York City, US
Countee Cullen
born: 30 May 1903, unknown
died: 9 January 1946, New York City, New York, US
Kurt Vonnegut
- The Big Trip Up Yonder (3,468 words)
- https://americanliterature.com/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/short-story/th...
Philip K. Dick
- Beyond Lies the Wub (2,625 words)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28554