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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