3 Texts in Chronological Order
- ~900 – “The Wanderer”
- Late 10th Century – “The Wife’s Lament”
- 1160-1215 – “The Lay of Sir Launfal” by Marie de France
- “The Lay of the Honeysuckle” by Marie de France
- “Bisclavret” by Marie de France
- 1250-1350 – “When the Nightingale Sings”
- 1250-1350 – “Spring Song”
- “Cuckoo Song”
- 1325-1537 – “Winter Song”
- 1325-1537 – “Earth”
- 1492-1493 – Journal of the First Voyage to America, (Excerpt) by Christopher Columbus
- 1516 – Preface to Utopia by Thomas More
- “The Author’s Epistle to Peter Giles” by Thomas More
- 1516 – Utopia by Thomas More
- 1540 – How the Spaniards Came to Shung-Opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission by Edmund Nequatewa
- 1599 – from The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh
- 1609 – “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare
- 1611 – “The Description of Cooke-ham” by Aemilia Lanyer
- 1630-1651 – Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
- 1633 – “The Sun Rising” by John Donne
- 1633 – “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne
- 1633 – “To His Mistress Going to Bed” or “Elegy 19” by John Donne
- 1633 – “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne
- 1640-1660 – “The Eclipse” by Hester Pulter
- 1640-1660 – “Aurora” by Hester Pulter
- 1640-1660 – “The Desire” by Hester Pulter
- 1640-1660 – “Mighty Nimrod (Emblem 1)” by Hester Pulter
- 1640-1660 – “Come, My Dear Children (Emblem 2)” by Hester Pulter
- 1640-1660 – “Heliotropians (Emblem 3)” by Hester Pulter
- 1640-1660 – “Virtue’s Duel (Emblem 4)” by Hester Pulter
- 1647 – “The Invitation into the Country, 1647” by Hester Pulter
- 1648 – “The Argument of his Book” by Robert Herrick
- 1648 – “Corinna’s going a Maying” by Robert Herrick
- 1648 – “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick
- 1650 – “The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet
- 1650 – “The Flesh and The Spirit” by Anne Bradstreet
- 1653 – “The Hunting of the Hare” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1653 – “The Hunting of the Stag” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1653 – “Of an Island” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1653 – “The Ruin of this Island” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1653 – “A World in an Earring” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1653 – “Of Many Worlds in this World” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1653 – “Untitled [Give me a free and noble style]” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1653 – “A Posset for Nature’s Breakfast” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1666 – “The Blazing World” by Margaret Cavendish
- 1667 – from Paradise Lost by John Milton
- ~1680 – A Letter on the Pueblo Revolt by Don Antonio de Otermin
- 1681 – “The Garden” by Andrew Marvell
- 1681 – “To his Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell
- 1688 – Oroonko by Aphra Behn
- 1740 – Personal Narrative (Excerpt) by Jonathan Edwards
- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man by Briton Hammon
- 1773 – “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley
- 1789 – from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or, Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano
- 1890s – John Rave’s Account of the Peyote Cult and of his Conversion by John Rave
- 1925 – Peyote Cult (Plains) by Paul Radin
