The Harvard Classics

Volume Author(s) Work(s)

Vol. 1 (transcription project) Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
John Woolman The Journal of John Woolman
William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims, More Fruits of Solitude, Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims

Vol. 2 (transcription project) Plato The Apology, Phædo, & Crito
Epictetus The Golden Sayings
Marcus Aurelius Meditations

Vol. 3 Francis Bacon Essays or Counsels, civil and moral & The New Atlantis
John Milton Aeropagitica & Milton's Tractate on Education
Thomas Browne Religio Medici

Vol. 4 (transcription project) John Milton Complete poems written in English

Vol. 5 (transcription project) Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays ("The American Scholar", "An Address", "Man the Reformer", "Self-reliance", "Compensation", "Friendship", "Heroism", "The Over-soul", "Circles", "The Poet", "Character", "Manners", "Gifts", "Nature", "Politics", "New England Reformers", "Worship", "Beauty") & English Traits

Vol. 6 (transcription project) Robert Burns Poems & songs

Vol. 7 (transcription project) St. Augustine The Confessions
Thomas à Kempis The Imitation of Christ

Vol. 8 (transcription project) Nine Greek Dramas
Aeschylus Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, & Prometheus Bound
Sophocles Oedipus the King, Antigone
Euripides Hippolytus, The Bacchae
Aristophanes The Frogs

Vol. 9 (transcription project) Cicero "On Friendship", "On Old age", & Letters
Pliny the Younger Letters

Vol. 10 (transcription project) Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations

Vol. 11 (transcription project) Charles Darwin The Origin of Species

Vol. 12 (transcription project) Plutarch Lives of Themistocles; Pericles; Aristides; Alcibiades & Coriolanus; Demosthenes & Cicero; Caesar & Antony

Vol. 13 (transcription project) Virgil Aeneid

Vol. 14 (transcription project) Cervantes Don Quixote

Vol. 15 (transcription project) John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
Izaak Walton The Lives of Donne and Herbert

Vol. 16 (transcription project) Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

Vol. 17 (transcription project) Folk-Lore and Fable
Aesop Fables
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm Children's and Household Tales
Hans Christian Andersen Tales

Vol. 18 (transcription project) Modern English Drama
John Dryden All for Love
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci
Robert Browning A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
Lord Byron Manfred

Vol. 19 (transcription project) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust, Egmont, & Hermann and Dorothea
Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus

Vol. 20 (transcription project) Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

Vol. 21 (transcription project) Alessandro Manzoni I Promessi Sposi

Vol. 22 (transcription project) Homer The Odyssey

Vol. 23 (transcription project) Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast

Vol. 24 (transcription project) Edmund Burke On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, & A Letter to a Noble Lord

Vol. 25 (transcription project) John Stuart Mill Autobiography, Essay on Liberty
Thomas Carlyle Characteristics, Inaugural Address, Essay on Scott

Vol. 26 (transcription project) Continental Drama
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Life is a Dream
Pierre Corneille Polyeucte
Jean Baptiste Racine Phædra
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's Fortune
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller William Tell

Vol. 27 (transcription project) English Essays
Sir Philip Sidney The Defense of Poesy
Ben Jonson On Shakespeare & On Bacon
Abraham Cowley Of Agriculture
Joseph Addison The Vision of Mirza & Westminster Abbey
Richard Steele The Spectator Club
Jonathan Swift Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation, A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding, A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet & On the Death of Esther Johnson [Stella]
Daniel Defoe The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters & The Education of Women
Samuel Johnson Life of Addison, 1672-1719
David Hume Of the Standard of Taste
Sydney Smith Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
Samuel Taylor Coleridge On Poesy or Art
William Hazlitt Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
Leigh Hunt Deaths of Little Children & On the Realities of Imagination
Charles Lamb On the Tragedies of Shakespeare
Thomas de Quincey Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
Percy Bysshe Shelley A Defence of Poetry
Thomas Babington Macaulay Machiavelli

Vol. 28 (transcription project) Essays, English and American
William Makepeace Thackeray Jonathan Swift
John Henry Newman The Idea of a University
Matthew Arnold The Study of Poetry
John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies
Walter Bagehot John Milton
Thomas Henry Huxley Science and Culture
Edward Augustus Freeman Race and Language
Robert Louis Stevenson Truth of Intercourse & Samuel Pepys
William Ellery Channing On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
Edgar Allan Poe The Poetic Principle
Henry David Thoreau Walking
James Russell Lowell Abraham Lincoln & Democracy

Vol. 29 (transcription project) Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle

Vol. 30 (transcription project) Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology
Michael Faraday The Forces of Matter & The Chemical History of a Candle
Hermann von Helmholtz On the Conservation of Force & Ice and Glaciers
Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) The Wave Theory of Light & The Tides
Simon Newcomb The Extent of the Universe
Archibald Geikie Geographical Evolution

Vol. 31 (transcription project) Benvenuto Cellini Autobiography

Vol. 32 (transcription project) Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
Montaigne That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until After Our Death, That to Philosophise is to Learne how to Die, Of the Institution and Education of Children, Of Friendship & Of Bookes
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Montaigne & What is a Classic?
Ernest Renan The Poetry of the Celtic Races
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing The Education of the Human Race
J. C. Friedrich von Schiller Letters Upon the Æsthetic Education of Man
Immanuel Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals & Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysic of Morals
Giuseppe Mazzini Byron and Goethe

Vol. 33 (transcription project) Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern
Herodotus An Account of Egypt
Tacitus Germany
Francis Drake Sir Francis Drake Revived
Francis Pretty Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Around the World
Walter Bigges Drake's Great Armada
Edward Haies Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
Sir Walter Raleigh The Discovery of Guiana

Vol. 34 (transcription project) French and English Philosophers
René Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences
Voltaire Letters on the English
J. J. Rousseau A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
Thomas Hobbes Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan

Vol. 35 (transcription project) Chronicle and Romance
Jean Froissart The Chronicles
Thomas Malory The Holy Grail
William Harrison A Description of Elizabethan England

Vol. 36 (transcription project) Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince
William Roper The Life of Sir Thomas More
Thomas More Utopia
Martin Luther The Ninety-five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate & Concerning Christian Liberty

Vol. 37 (transcription project) English Philosophers
John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education
George Berkeley Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Vol. 38 (transcription project) Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology
Hippocrates The Oath of Hippocrates & The Law of Hippocrates
Ambroise Paré Journeys in Diverse Places
William Harvey On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
Edward Jenner The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox
O. W. Holmes The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
Lord Lister On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
Louis Pasteur The Physiological Theory of Fermentation, The Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery & On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
Charles Lyell Prejudices which have Retarded the Progress of Geology & Uniformity in the Series of Past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate World

Vol. 39 (transcription project) Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
William Caxton Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, Epilogue to Dictes and Saying of the Philosophers, Prologue to Golden Legend, Prologue to Caton, Epilogue to Aesop, Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Prologue to Malory's King Arthur & Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos
John Calvin Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion
Nicolaus Copernicus Dedication of the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies
John Knox Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland
Edmund Spenser Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene
Walter Raleigh Preface to the History of the World
Francis Bacon Prœmium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, Etc. & Preface to the Novum Organum
John Heminges and Henry Condell Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays
Isaac Newton Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
John Dryden Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern
Henry Fielding Preface to Joseph Andrews
Samuel Johnson Preface to the English Dictionary & Preface to Shakespeare
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Introduction to the Propylaen
William Wordsworth Preface to Various Volumes of Poems, Appendix to Lyrical Ballads & Essay Supplementary to Preface
Victor Hugo Preface to Cromwell
Walt Whitman Preface to Leaves of Grass
H. A. Taine Introduction to the History of English Literature

English Poetry
Vol. 40 (transcription project) Geoffrey Chaucer The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales & The Nun's Priest's Tale
Traditional Ballads The Douglas Tragedy, The Twa Sisters, Edward, Babylon: or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie, Hind Horn, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, Love Gregor, Bonny Barbara Allan, The Gay Goss-Hawk, The Three Ravens, The Twa Corbies, Sir Patrick Spence, Thomas Rymer and the Queen of Elfland, Sweet William's Ghost, The Wife of Usher's Well, Hugh of Lincoln, Young Bicham, Get Up and Bar the Door, The Battle of Otterburn, Chevy Chase, The Bonny Earl of Murray, Kinmont Willie, Bonnie George Campbell, The Dowy Houms o Yarrow, Mary Hamilton, The Baron of Brackley, Bewick and Grahame & A Gest of Robyn Hode
Anonymous Balow, The Old Cloak & Jolly Good Ale and Old
Thomas Wyatt A Supplication & The Lover's Appeal
Henry Howard Complaint of the Absence of her Lover Being Upon the Sea & The Means to Attain Happy Life
George Gascoigne A Lover's Lullaby
Nicholas Breton Phillida and Coridon
Anonymous A Sweet Lullaby, Preparations & The Unfaithful Shepherdess
Anthony Munday Beauty Bathing
Richard Edwardes Amantium Irae
Sir Walter Raleigh His Pilgrimage, The Lie, Verses & What Is Our Life
Edward Dyer My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
John Lyly Cupid and Campaspe & Spring's Welcome
Sir Philip Sidney Song, A Dirge, A Ditty, Loving in Truth, Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware, To Sleep & To the Moon
Thomas Lodge Rosalind's Madrigal, Rosaline & Phillis
George Peele Paris and Œnone
Robert Southwell The Burning Babe
Samuel Daniel Beauty, Time and Love Sonnets & To Sleep
Michael Drayton Agincourt, To the Virginian Voyage & Love's Farewell
Henry Constable Diaphenia
Edmund Spenser Prothalamion, Epithalamion , A Ditty, Perigot and Willie's Roundelay, Easter, What Guile Is This?, Fair Is My Love, So Oft as I Her Beauty Do Behold, Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart's Desire & Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough
William Habington To Roses in the Bosom of Castara & Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam
Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love & Her Reply
Richard Rowlands Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby
Thomas Nashe In Time of Pestilence & Spring
William Shakespeare Winter, O Mistress Mine, Fancy, Under the Greenwood Tree, A Lover and His Lass, Silvia, Spring, Lullaby, Ophelia's Song, Where the Bee Sucks, Love's Perjuries, Take, O Take, A Madrigal, Amien's Song, Dawn Song, Dirge of Love, Fidele's Dirge, A Sea Dirge & Sonnets 18, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 54, 55, 57, 60, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 87, 90, 94, 97, 98, 104, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 116, 129, 146, 148
Robert Greene Content
Richard Barnfield The Nightingale
Thomas Campion Cherry-ripe, Follow your Saint, When to Her Lute Corinna Sings, Follow thy Fair Sun, Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes & Integer Vitae
Robert Devereux A Passion of my Lord of Essex
Henry Wotton Elizabeth of Bohemia & Character of a Happy Life
Edward de Vere A Renunciation
Ben Jonson Simplex Munditiis, The Triumph, The Noble Nature, To Celia, A Farewell to the World, A Nymph's Passion, Epode, Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H., On Lucy, Countess of Bedford, An Ode to Himself, Hymn to Diana, On Salathiel Pavy, His Supposed Mistress & To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath Left Us
John Donne The Funeral, A Hymn to God the Father, Valediction, Forbidding Mourning, Death, The Dream, Song, Sweetest Love, I do not Go, Lover's Infiniteness, Love's Deity, Stay, O Sweet, The Blossom, The Good Morrow & Present in Absence
Joshua Sylvester Love's Omnipresence
William Alexander To Aurora
Richard Corbet Farewell, Rewards and Fairies
Thomas Heywood Pack, Clouds, Away
Thomas Dekker Country Glee, Cold's the Wind & O Sweet Content
Francis Beaumont On the Tombs in Westminster Abeey & Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Johnson
John Fletcher Aspatia's Song & Melancholy
John Webster Call for the Robin-Redbreast
Anonymous O Waly, Waly, Helen of Kirconnel, My Love in Her Attire & Love Not Me
William Drummond Saint John Baptist, Madrigal, Life, Human Folly, The Problem, To His Lute, For the Magdalene, Content and Resolute, Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines & Summons to Love
George Wither I Loved a Lass & The Lover's Resolution
William Browne (?) On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke
Robert Herrick Cherry-Ripe, A Child's Grace, The Mad Maid's Song, To the Virgins, To Dianeme, A Sweet Disorder, Whenas in Silks, To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing, To Daffodils, To Blossoms & Corinna's Maying
Francis Quarles An Ecstasy
George Herbert Love—Virtue—The Elixir—The Collar—The Flower—Easter Song—The Pulley
Henry Vaughan Beyond the Veil—The Retreat
Francis Bacon Life
James Shirley The Glories of our Blood and State & The Last Conqueror
Thomas Carew The True Beauty—Ask Me No More—Know, Celia—Give Me More Love
John Suckling The Constant Lover—Why So Pale and Wan
William Davenant Dawn Song
Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, To Althea from Prison & To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas
Edmund Waller On a Girdle—Go, Lovely Rose!
William Cartwright On the Queen's Return from the Low Countries
James Graham My Dear and Only Love
Richard Crashaw Wishes for the Supposed Mistress & Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa
Thomas Jordan Let Us Drink and Be Merry
Abraham Cowley A Supplication, Cheer Up, My Mates, Drinking & On the Death of Mr. William Harvey
Alexander Brome The Resolve
Andrew Marvell A Garden, The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers, Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda & Thoughts in a Garden
Anonymous Love Will Find Out the Way & Phillada Flouts Me
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Epitaph on Charles II
Charles Sedley Chloris & Celia
John Dryden Ode, Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of Town in the Spring, Song for St. Cecilia's Day, Alexander's Feast & On Milton
Matthew Prior To a Child of Quality, Cloe, The Dying Adrian to His Soul & Epigram
Isaac Watts True Greatness
Grizel Baillie Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee
Joseph Addison Hymn
Allan Ramsay Peggy
John Gay Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing & Black-Eyed Susan
Henry Carey Sally in our Alley
Alexander Pope Solitude, On a Certain Lady at Court & Essay on Man
Ambrose Philips To Charlotte Pulteney
Colley Cibber The Blind Boy
James Thomson Rule, Britannia—To Fortune
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, Ode on the Spring, The Progress of Poesy, The Bard, Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude & On a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
George Bubb Dodington Shorten Sail
Vol. 41 (transcription project) William Collins Fidele, Ode Written in MDCCXLVI, The Passions & To Evening
George Sewell The Dying Man in His Garden
Alison Rutherford Cockburn The Flowers of the Forest
Jane Elliot Lament for Flodden
Christopher Smart A Song for David
Anonymous Willy Drowned in Yarrow
John Logan The Braes od Yarrow
Henry Fielding A Hunting Song
Charles Dibdin Tom Bowling
Samuel Johnson On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet & A Satire
Oliver Goldsmith When Lovely Woman Stoops, Retaliation, The Deserted Village & The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society
Robert Graham of Gartmore If Doughty Deeds
Adam Austin For Lack of Gold
William Cowper Loss of the Royal George, To a Young Lady, The Poplar Field, The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk, To Mary Unwin, To the Same, Boadicea: An Ode, The Castaway, The Shrubbery, On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk & The Diverting History of John Gilpin
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Driking Song
Anna Laetitia Barbauld Life
Isobel Pagan (?) Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
Anne Lindsay Auld Robin Gray
Thomas Chatterton Song from Ælla
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne The Land o' the Leal, He's Ower the Hills that I Lo'e Weel, The Auld House, The Laird o' Cockpen, The Rowan Tree, Wha'll Be King But Charlie? & Charlie Is My Darling
Alexander Ross Wooed and Married and A'
John Skinner Tullochgorum
Michael Bruce To the Cuckoo
George Halket Logie o' Buchan
William Hamilton of Bangour The Braes of Yarrow
Hector MacNeil I Lo'ed Ne'er a Laddie but Ane & Come Under my Plaidie
Sir William Jones An Ode & On Parent Knees a Naked New-born Child
Susanna Blamire And Ye Shall Walk in Silk Attire
Anne Hunter My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair
John Dunlop The Year, That's Awa'
Samuel Rogers A Wish & The Sleeping Beauty
William Blake The Tiger, Ah! Sun-Flower, To Spring, Reeds of Innocence, Night, Auguries of Innocence, Nurse's Song, Holy Thurdsay00, 00The Divine Image & Song
John Collins To-Morrow
Robert Tannahill Jessie, the Flower o' Dunblane & Gloomy Winter's Now Awa'
William Wordsworth Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, My Heart Leaps Up, The Two April Mornings, The Fountain, Written in March, Nature and the Poet, Ruth: On the Influences of Nature, A Lesson, Michael, Yarrow Unvisited, Yarrow Visited, Yarrow Revisited, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, The Daffodils, To the Daisy, To the Cuckoo, The Green Linnet, Written in Early Spring, To the Skylark, The Affliction of Margaret, Simon Lee the Old Huntsman, Ode to Duty, She was a Phantom of Delight, To the Highland Girl of Inversneyde, The Solitary Reaper, The Reverie of Poor Susan, To Toussaint L'Ouverture, Character of the Happy Warrior, Resolution and Independence, Laodamia, We Are Seven, Lucy, The Inner Vision, By the Sea, Upon Westminster Bridge, To a Distant Friend , Desideria, We Must Be Free or Die, England and Switzerland, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, London, MDCCCII, The Same, When I Have Borne, The World Is Too Much With Us, Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon, Composed at Neidpath Castle, the Property of Lord Queensberry, Admonition to a Traveller, To Sleep & The Sonnet
William Lisle Bowles Dover Cliffs
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Youth and Age, Love, Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni, Christabel & Dejection: an Ode
Robert Southey After Blenheim & The Scholar
Charles Lamb The Old Familiar Faces, Hester & On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
Walter Scott The Outlaw, To a Lock of Hair, Jock of Hazeldean, Eleu Loro, A Serenade , The Rover, The Maid of Neidpath, Gathering Song of Donald the Black, Border Ballad, The Pride of Youth, Coronach, Lucy Ashton's Song, Answer, Rosabelle, Hunting Song, Lochinvar, Bonny Dundee, Datur Hora Quieti, Here's a Health to King Charles & Harp of the North, Farewell!
James Hogg Kilmeny, When the Kye Comes Hame, The Skylark & Lock the Door, Lariston
Robert Surtees Barthram's Dirge
Thomas Campbell The Soldier's Dream, To the Evening Star, Ode to the Winter, Lord Ullin's Daughter, The River of Life, To the Evening Star, The Maid of Neidpath, Ye Mariners of England, Battle of the Baltic & Hohenlinden
J. Campbell Freedom and Love
Allan Cunningham Hame, Hame, Hame & A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
George Gordon Byron Youth and Age, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Elegy on Thyrza, When We Two Parted, For Music, She Walks in Beauty, All for Love, Elegy, To Augusta, Epistle to Augusta, Maid of Athens, Darkness, Longing, Fare Thee Well, The Prisoner of Chillon, On the Castle of Chillon, Song of Saul Before His Last Battle, The Isles of Greece & On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
Thomas Moore The Light of Other Days, Pro Patria Mori, The Meeting of the Waters, The Last Rose of Summer, The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls, A Canadian Boat-Song, The Journey Onwards, The Young May Moon, Echo & At the Mid Hour of Night
Charles Wolfe The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of Pan, Hellas, Invocation, Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples, I Fear Thy Kisses, Lines to an Indian Air, To a Skylark, Love's Philosophy, To the Night, Ode to the West Wind, Written Among the Euganean Hills, North Italy, Hymn to the Spirit of Nature, A Lament, A Dream of the Unknown, The Invitation, The Recollection, To the Moon, A Widow Bird, To a Lady, with a Guitar, One Word is Too Often Profaned, Ozymandias of Egypt, The Flight of Love, The Cloud, Stanzas—April, 1814, Music, When Soft Voices Die, The Poet's Dream, The World's Wanderers & Adonais
James Henry Leigh Hunt Jenny Kiss'd Me & Abou Ben Adhem
John Keats The Realm of Fancy, Ode on the Poets, The Mermaid Tavern, Happy Insensibility, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode to Autumn, Ode to Psyche, Ode on Melancholy, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, On the Grasshopper and Cricket, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, To Sleep, The Human Seasons, Great Spirits Now on Earth Are Sojourning, The Terror of Death & Last Sonnet
Walter Savage Landor Rose Aylmer, Twenty Years Hence, Proud Word You Never Spoke, Absence, Dirce, Corinna to Tanagra, From Athens, Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel, Well I Remember, No, My Own Love, Robert Browning, The Death of Artemidora, Iphigeneia, 'Do you Remember Me?', For an Epitaph at Fiesole, On Lucretia Borgia's Hair, On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, To My Ninth Decade, Death Stands Above Me & On Living Too Long
Thomas Hood Fair Ines, The Bridge of Sighs, The Death Bed & Past and Present
Aubrey De Vere Glengariff
Hartley Coleridge She is Not Fair
Joseph Blanco White To Night
George Darley The Loveliness of Love
Thomas Babington Macaulay The Armada & A Jacobite's Epitaph
William Edmondstoune Aytoun The Refusal of Charon
Hugh Miller The Babie
Helen Selina Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Charles Tennyson Turner Letty's Globe
Samuel Ferguson The Fair Hills of Ireland
Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Musical Instrument, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1-44 & The Sleep
Edward Fitzgerald Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishápúr
Vol. 42 (transcription project) Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shalott, Sweet and Low, Tears, Idle Tears, Blow, Bugle, Blow, Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, O Swallow, Swallow, Break, Break, Break, In the Valley of Cauteretz, Vivien's Song, Enid's Song, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, Morte D'Arthur, The Lotos-Eaters, You Ask Me, Why, Love Thou Thy Land, Sir Galahad, The Higher Pantheism, Flower in the Crannied Wall, Wages, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Revenge, Rizpah, To Virgil, Maud & Crossing the Bar
Richard Monckton Milnes Sonnet
William Makepeace Thackeray The End of the Play
Charles Kingsley Airly Beacon, The Sands of Dee, Young and Old & Ode to the North-east Wind
J. Wilson (?) The Canadian Boat Song
Robert Browning Prospice, 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' [16–], The Lost Leader, Home-thoughts, from Abroad, Home-thoughts, from the Sea, Parting at Morning, The Lost Mistress, The Last Ride Together, Pippa's Song, You'll Love Me Yet, My Last Duchess, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church, Evelyn Hope, A Toccata of Galuppi's, Memorabilia, The Patriot, A Grammarian's Funeral, Andrea Del Sarto, One Word More, Abt Vogler, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Never the Time and the Place, Dedication of the Ring and the Book & Epilogue
Emily Bronte Last Lines & The Old Stoic
Robert Stephen Hawker And Shall Trelawny Die?
Coventry Patmore Departure
William Johnson Cory Heraclitus & Mimnermus in Church
Sydney Dobell The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston
William Allingham The Fairies
George MacDonald That Holy Thing & Baby
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton The Last Wish
Arthur Hugh Clough Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth, The Stream of Life, In a London Square, Qua Cursum Ventus & Where Lied the Land
Matthew Arnold The Forsaken Merman, The Song of Callicles, To Marguerite, Requiescat, Shakespeare, Rugby Chapel, Memorial Verses, Dover Beach, The Better Part, Worldly Place & The Last Word
George Meredith Love in the Valley
Alexander Smith Barbara
Charles Dickens The Ivy Green
Thomas Edward Brown My Garden
James Thomson (B. V.) Gifts
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel, The King's Tragedy, Lovesight, Heart's Hope, Genius in Beauty, Silent Noon, Love-Sweetness, Heart's Compass & Her Gifts
Christina Georgina Rossetti Song, Remember, Up-Hill & In the Round Tower at Jhansi
William Morris The Defence of Guenevere, Prologuue of the Earthly Paradise, The Nymph's Song to Hylas, The Day is Coming & The Days That Were
John Boyle O'Reilly A White Rose
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy Ode
Robert Williams Buchanan Liz
Algernon Charles Swinburne Chorus from 'Atalanta', Itylus, The Garden of Proserpine, A Match & A Forsaken Garden
William Ernest Henley Margaritæ Sorori, Invictus & England, My England
Robert Louis Stevenson In the Highlands, The Celestial Surgeon & Requiem
William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis, Robert of Lincoln, Song of Marion's Men, June, The Past, To a Waterfowl & The Death of Lincoln
Edgar Allan Poe Lenore, The Haunted Palace, To Helen, The Raven, Ulalume, The Bells, To My Mother, For Annie, Annabel Lee & The Conqueror Worm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Good-Bye, The Apology, Brahma, Days, Give All to Love, Concord Hymn, The Humble-Bee, The Problem, Woodnotes & Boston Hymn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life, The Light of Stars, Hymn to the Night, Footsteps of Angels, The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Village Blacksmith, Serenade, The Rainy Day, The Day is Done, The Bridge, Resignation, Children, The Building of the Ship, My Lost Youth, The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz, The Children's Hour, Paul Revere's Ride, Killed at the Ford & Evangeline
John Greenleaf Whittier The Eternal Goodness, Randolph of Roanoke, Massachusetts to Virginia, Barclay of Ury, Maud Muller, The Barefoot Boy, Skipper Ireson's Ride, The Pipes at Lucknow & Barbara Frietchie
Oliver Wendell Holmes The Chambered Nautilus, Old Ironsides, The Last Leaf & Contentment
James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis, The Pious Editor's Creed, The Courtin' & Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration
Sidney Lanier The Marshes of Glynn, The Revenge of Hamish & How Love Looked for Hell
Bret Harte The Reveille
Walt Whitman One's-self I Sing, Beat! Beat! Drums!, Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night, Pioneers! O Pioneers!, Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, The Wound-Dresser, Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun, O Captain! My Captain!, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Prayer of Columbus & The Last Invocation

Vol. 43 (transcription project) American Historical Documents The Voyages to Vinland (c. 1000)
The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery (1493)
Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First Voyage (1497)
John Cabot's Discovery of North America (1497)
First Charter of Virginia (1606)
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)
Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion, by John Winthrop (1644)
The Instrument of Government (1653)
A Healing Question, by Sir Henry Vane (1656)
John Eliot's Brief Narrative (1670)
Declaration of Rights (1765)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1775)
Articles of Confederation (1777)
Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown (1781)
Treaty with Great Britain (1783)
Constitution of the United States (1787)
The Federalist, nos. 1 and 2 (1787)
Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland (1819)
Washington's First Inaugural Address (1789)
Treaty with the Six Nations (1794)
Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase) (1803)
Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812) (1814)
Arrangement as to the Naval Force to be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes (1817)
Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida) (1819)
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain (1842)
Treaty with Mexico (1848)
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (1861)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)
Proclamation of Amnesty (1863)
Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864)
Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox (1865)
Lee's Farewell to his Army (1865)
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End (1866)
Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase) (1867)
Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898)
Recognition of the Independence of Cuba (1898)
Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines) (1898)
Convention between the United States and the Republic of Panama (1904)

Sacred Writings
Vol. 44 (transcription project) Confucian The Sayings of Confucius
Hebrew The Book of Job; The Book of Psalms; Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher
Christian (I) The Gospel According to Luke; The Acts of the Apostles
Vol. 45 (transcription project) Christian (II) The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians; The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
Hymns of the Christian Church
Hymns Based on Psalms: Psalms XIX, XXIII, LXXII, XC, C, CIV
Greek Hymns: Gloria in Excelsis—Shepherd of Tender Youth; The Day is Past and Over; The Day of Resurrection; Art Thou Weary?
Latin Hymns: Te Deum Laudamus; Veni Creator Spiritus; Hic Breve Vivitur; Urbs Sion Aurea; Jesu, Dulcis Memoria—Jesu, Dulcedo Cordium; Dies Iræ, Dies Illa; Stabat Mater; Adeste Fideles; O Deus, Ego Amo Te
Modern Hymns: A Mighty Fortress is Our God; Now Thank We All Our God; Be Not Dismayed—In Temptation; Christmas Hymn; Light Shining Out of Darkness; The Future Peace and Glory of the Church; Early Piety; The Holy Trinity; Epiphany—Sun of My Soul, Thou Saviour Dear; Abide With Me; The Pillar of Cloud; Nearer, My God, to Thee; My Faith Looks Up to Thee; A Sun-Day Hymn; The Pilgrims of the Night; Let There Be Light
Buddhist The Buddha: The Story of Sumedha; The Birth of The Buddha; The Attainment of Buddhaship; First Events After the Attainment; The Buddha's Daily Habits; The Death of the Buddha
The Doctrine: Questions Which Tend Not to Edification; There Is No Ego; The Middle Doctrine; Karma; Fruitful and Barren Karma; Good and Bad Karma; Rebirth is Not Transmigration; Death's Messengers; The Devoted Wife; The Hare-mark in the Moon; The Way of Purity; Concentration; The Conversion of Animals; Love for Animals; Sariputta and the Two Demons; The Summum Bonum; The Trance of Cessation; The Attainment of Nirvana
The Order: The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies; The Mendicant Ideal; "And Hate Not His Father and Mother"; The Story of Visakha
Hindu The Bhagavad-Gita Or Song Celestial
Mohammedan Chapters from the Koran
Mecca Suras The Chapter of Congealed Blood; The Chapter of the 'Covered'; The Chapter of the Enwrapped; The Chapter of the Forenoon; Thee Opening Chapter; The Chapter of Misbelievers; The Chapter of Unity; The Chapter of 'Necessaries'; The Chapter of the Night; The Chapter of the Land; The Chapter 'He Frowned'; The Chapter of the Smiting; The Chapter of the Cleaving Asunder; The Chapter of the Folding Up; The Chapter of Those who Tear Out; The Chapter of Those Sent; The Chapter of the Resurrection; The Chapter of the Infallible; The Chapter of the Mount; The Chapter of the Inevitable; The Chapter of the Star; The Chapter of the Merciful; The Chapter of the Poets; The Chapter of Mary; The Chapter of the Night Journey; The Chapter of Joseph (peace be on him!); The Chapter of the Believer; The Chapter of Thunder
Medina Suras: The Chapter of the Congregation; The Chapter of the Spoils

Elizabethan Drama
Vol. 46 (transcription project) Christopher Marlowe Edward the Second
William Shakespeare Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, & The Tempest
Vol. 47 (transcription project) Thomas Dekker The Shoemaker's Holiday
Ben Jonson The Alchemist
Beaumont & Fletcher Philaster
John Webster The Duchess of Malfi
Philip Massinger A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Vol. 48 Blaise Pascal Thoughts, Letters, & Minor works

Vol. 49 (transcription project) Epic & Saga Beowulf
The Song of Roland
The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel
The Story of the Volsungs & Nibelungenlied

Vol. 50 (transcription project) Introduction, Reader's Guide, Indexes, Selection For Boys & Girls

Vol. 51 Lectures on The Harvard Classics


Note: Fifteen Minutes a Day - The Reading Guide (Copr. 1930) is not on Wikisource until 2026
Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

Volume Author(s) Work(s)

Vol. 1 & 2 (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones

Vol. 3 (transcription project) Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

Vol. 4 (transcription project) Walter Scott Guy Mannering

Vol. 5 & 6 (transcription volumes: 1, 2) William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. 7 & 8 (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Charles Dickens David Copperfield

Vol. 9 (transcription project) George Eliot The Mill on the Floss

Vol. 10 (transcription project) American Fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter & "Rappacini's Daughter"
Washington Irving "Rip Van Winkle" & "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Edgar Allan Poe "Eleonora", "The Fall of the House of Usher", & "The Purloined Letter"
Francis Bret Harte "The Luck of Roaring Camp", "The Outcasts of Poker Flat", & "The Idyl of Red Gulch"
Samuel L. Clemens "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog"
Edward Everett Hale "The Man Without a Country"

Vol. 11 (transcription project) Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

Vol. 12 (transcription project) Victor Marie Hugo Notre Dame de Paris

Vol. 13 (transcription project) French Fiction
Honoré Balzac Old Goriot
George Sand The Devil's Pool
Alfred de Musset The Story of a White Blackbird
Alphonse Daudet "The Siege of Berlin", "The Last Class—The Story of a Little Alsatian", "The Child Spy", "The Game of Billiards", & "The Bad Zouave"
Guy de Maupassant "Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure" & "Two Friends"

Vol. 14 (transcription project) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Vol. 15 (transcription project) German Fiction
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
Gottfried Keller The Banner of the Upright Seven
Theodor Storm The Rider on the White Horse
Theodor Fontane Trials and Tribulations

Vol. 16 & 17 (transcription volumes: 1, 2) Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina & Ivan the Fool

Vol. 18 (transcription project) Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

Vol. 19 (transcription project) Ivan Turgenev A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children

Vol. 20 (transcription project) Juan Valera Pepita Jimenez
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson A Happy Boy
Alexander L. Kielland Skipper Worse

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