- "The Odyssey" by Homer (Ancient Greece)
- "The Aeneid" by Virgil (Ancient Rome)
- "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (Italy)
- "Beowulf" (England)
- "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer (England)
- "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser (England)
- "Paradise Lost" by John Milton (England)
- "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope (England)
- "The Prelude" by William Wordsworth (England)
- "Don Juan" by Lord Byron (England)
- "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (United States)
- "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (United States)
- "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (United States)
- "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats (England)
- "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (England)
- "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (England)
- "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (England)