Western Motel by Edward Hopper
Supplemental Works Online
Western Motel by Edward Hopper
Stevie Smith, "Not Waving, But Drowning"
William Shakespeare, "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"; "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"; and "When my love swears that she is made of truth"
Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
John Donne, "The Flea" Holy Sonnet 1, and Holy Sonnet 14.
Mark Jarman, "Unholy Sonnet"
Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet from the Portuguese XLIII
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover"
Andrew Lang (based on versions by Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve and Madame Le Prince de Beaumont), "Beauty and the Beast."
Angela Carter, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and "The Tiger's Bride"
Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turrret Gunner"
Edgar Lee Masters, Selections from the Spoon River Anthology
John Crowe Ransom, "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"
e. e. cummings, "next to of course god america i"
Rita Dove, "Parsley"
Philip Larkin, "Aubade," "This Is the First Thing," and "This Be the Verse"
Ballads: "The Outlandish Knight," and "Lord Rendal"
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "Eleanor Rigby"
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, "A Little Rain"
Leonard Cohen, "Bird on a Wire" and "Story of Isaac"
Nick Cave, "Idiot Prayer" and "The Mercy Seat"
For further reading:
Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat"
Kate Chopin, "Desiree's Baby"