Glencoe World History: Modern Times, California Edition

Unit 1: The World Before Modern Times

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from the Analects by Confucius
An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antigone by Sophocles
from the Apology: from the Dialogues by Plato
At Last It's Come by Sulpicia
from Beowulf by Anonymous
Better to Live, Licinius by Horace
Bisclavret: The Lay of the Werewolf by Marie de France
from The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
The Book of Ruth: from the Tanakh
The Butterfly Dream by Chuang Tzu
from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Counsels of the Bird: from the Masnavi by Rumi
The Dog and the Wolf by Aesop
from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by The Venerable Bede
from Everyman by Anonymous
For My Mother Said by Sappho
Genesis 6-9: The Flood: from the Tanakh
from Gilgamesh: The Death of Humbaba by Anonymous
from The Immortality of Writers translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
from the Inferno: from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
In My Eyes He Matches the Gods by Sappho
Jade Flower Palace by Tu Fu
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
from Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
from the Mahabharata: Hundred Questions retold by R. K. Narayan
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Most Beautiful of All the Stars by Sappho
from the Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
from the Panchatantra: The Lion-Makers translated by Arthur W. Ryder
Penelope by Dorothy Parker
from The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
Poems of Catullus by Catullus
from the Qur'an: The Exordium and Daylight translated by N. J. Dawood
The Raven and the Fox by Aesop
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
from the Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám
Siren Song by Margaret Atwood
So small are the flowers of Seamu translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
Some Say Thronging Calvary by Sappho
from the Song of Roland translated by Frederick Goldin
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid
from the Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Arthur Becomes King, from The Once and Future King by T. H. White
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare
The Constant Lover by Sir John Suckling
from The Crisis, No. 1 by Thomas Paine
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
Epigrams: from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
Eve's Apology by Aemilia Lanyer
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun by William Shakespeare
from Genesis from the King James Bible
The Happy Man's Shirt retold by Italo Calvino
How Soon Hath Time by John Milton
Letter to Her Daughter by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Life in Benin: from Equiano's Travels by Olaudah Equiano
from The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
Love Does Not Know Secrets translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadmy
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Meditation 17 by John Donne
A Modest Proposal, from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
from Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
Of Studies by Sir Francis Bacon
Offer of Help by Canassatego
On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn
On Monsieur's Departure by Elizabeth I
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
from Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Psalm 23 from the King James Bible
The Rain Came by Grace Ogot
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
Song by John Donne
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 30 by Sir Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 31 by Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 39by Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 75 by Sir Edmund Spencer
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 145 by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sonnet 239 by Michelangelo
Sudden Moods translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadmy
Tears of Love translated by Ali Ahmed Jahadmy
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
To His Excellency, General Washington by Phyllis Wheatley
To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Tribal Scars or The Voltaique by Ousmane Sembène
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton
Whoso List to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? by Sir John Suckling

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