Poetry
- "Compensation", a poem by Myrtle Leeta Cherry ("I who so love the harmonies of sound")
- "Compensation", a poem by Florence Earle Coates. ("When Winter's sovereignty complete")
- "Compensation", a poem by Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. ("I plucked a rose from out a bower fair")
- "Compensation", a poem by Emily Dickinson. ("For each ecstatic instant")
- "Compensation", a poem by Arthur Conan Doyle ("The grime is on the window pane")
- "Compensation", a poem by Gladys Cromwell
- "Compensation", a poem by Julia Caroline Dorr
- "Compensation", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. ("Because I had loved so deeply")
- "Compensation", a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Why should I keep holiday")
- "Compensation", a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson ("The wings of Time are black and white")
- "Compensation", a poem by Richard Watson Gilder. ("The Angel of Life stood forth on the threshold of Birth")
- "Compensation", a poem by Rebecca Queen Jordan
- "Compensation", a poem by Eliza Jane Stephens. ("There's many a wreath for the conqueror bold")
- "Compensation", a poem by Agnes Louisa Storrie
- "Compensation", a poem by Sara Teasdale ("I should be glad of loneliness")
Prose