Oral lore from precolonial times (-1564)

Riddles (Aeta, Bagobo, Isneg, Subanun, Tagbanwa)

Proverbs

Short poems

Ambahan

Songs:

Lange (Bilaan), Dangdang-ay (Kalinga), An Bulad (Waray), Pamuwa sa bata (Bukidnon), Muyin paru ninu (Ivatan), Dumheb ako a dumanis (Ivatan)

Myths:

The second creation (Tiruray), the great flood (Tinggian), tungkung langit and alunsina

Folk tales:

The story of the orphan girl (Subanun), the monkey and the turtle (Bilaan)

Legends:

How the angels built lake Lanao

Epic:

Tuwaang attends the wedding (Manuvu), Tuwaang in battle

Literature under Spanish colonialism (1565-1897)

Though it is stormy and dark / Anonymous

Peter denies the Lord / Gaspar Aquino De Belen

Florante's first lamentation / Francisco Balagtas Baltazar

Grief of the Sultan and parent / Francisco Balagtas Baltazar

Urbana at Feliza : two letters / Modesto De Castro

A rather humorous greeting / Leona Florentino

Lost hope / Leona Florentino

Desire's unlikely end / Leona Florentino

The passion story that ought to inflame the hearts of persons subjected to the cruelty of friars / Marcelo H. Del Pilar

Spoken in a duplo joust / Marcelo H. Del Pilar

To the flowers of Heidelberg / Jose Rizal

The last chapter (from El filibusterismo) / Jose Rizal

Valedictory poem / Jose Rizal

What the Filipino should know / Andres Bonifacio

The final cry of Filipinas / Andres Bonifacio

may love, ever since you left me / Gregoria De Jesus

Light and darkness : two essays / Emilio Jacinto

Our plea / Victoria Lactaw, et. al.

Literature under U.S. colonialism (1898-1945)

To the national hero / Cecilio Apostol

To the yankee / Cecilio Apostol

Against invaders (yesterday, today and tomorrow) / Aurelio Tolentino

Neneng (Excerpt) / Mena Pecson Crisologo

Wanted: a chaperon / Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero

Greta Garbo / Deogracias A. Rosario

A son is born / Manuel E. Arguilla

Anabella / Magdalena Jalandoni

And I was carried away / Marcel Navarra

Life ever bitter (chapter VI of Eclipsed) / Faustino Aguilar

Consumes by gambling (excerpt from the Pangginge gambler) / Lope K. Santos

Taal volcano / Pedro Gatmaitan

Eclipsed / Pedro Gatmaitan

Pen / Benigno Ramos

Hacienda / Benigno Ramos

Love / Jose Corazon De Jesus

A virgin's hand / Jose Corazon De Jesus

Visions / Jose Corazon De Jesus

Wings / Jose Corazon De Jesus

If / Gardeopatra Quijano

Though you tell me not / Evangeline Guerrero

Two faces of America (from America is in the Heart) / Carlos Bulosan.

Literature under the republic (1946-1985)

The pilgrimage of death / Manuel Bernabe

The brook runs deep (the world is still beautiful) / Lazaro Francisco

Isolation cell / Amado V. Hernandez

The forked stream (free country) / Amado V. Hernandez

Cadaver / Alberto S. Florentino

I am the universe / Alejandro G, Abadilla

Essay for a poem / Alejandro G, Abadilla

Song to myself / Alejandro G, Abadilla

Paper boat / Genoveva Edroza-Matute

A visit with poverty (Thossse who rise at dawn) / Constante Casabar

Sounds of Sunday / Kerima Polotan-Tuvera

The trial of Mang Serapio / Paul A. Dumol

Family reunion / Carlos A. Angeles

Landscape II / Carlos A. Angeles

Walking home / Emmanuel S. Torres

Another invitation to visit Tondo / Emmanuel S. Torres

The summer solstice / Nick Joaquin

In Sipolog (from The Bamboo Dancers) / N.V.M. Gonzalez

The day the dancers came / Bienvenido N. Santos

Cadena de amor / Wilfrido D. Nolledo

After snack / Rolando S. Tinio

Valediction at Hillcrest / Rolando S. Tinio

The claws dig in (manila : in the claws of light) / Edgardo M. Reyes

The death ofTio Samuel / Efren R. Abueg

To the still life painter / Rio Alma

The life of Ka Bestre, rig-driver / Rio Alma

The children of toil must now be heard / Rio Alma

What must be believed in / Jose F. Lacaba

Force of circumtance / Jose F. Lacaba

Night of a construction worker / Lamberto E. Antonio

On the death of a newspaper delivery boy / Lamberto E. Antonio

Mareng Mensiya / Fanny A. Garcia

The sermon / Bonifacio Ilagan

King's decree / Pedro Cruz Reyes, Jr.

Except the truth (excerpt from Chapter XIV of my brother, my executioner) / Francisco Sionil Jose

Literature after EDSA (1986-1995)

The very last story of Huli / Lilia Quindoza Santiago

The execution / Charlson Ong

A comrade's death (from Killing time in an warm place) / Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr.

Among the disappeared / Ricardo Lee

Encounter / Zelda Soriano

Geyluv / Honorio De Dios

The way we live / Danton Remoto

Conversations / Danton Remoto

Voice tape / Wilfredo PA. Virtusio

Caravan of the waterbearers / Marjorie Evasco

Maria de las flores / Marjorie Evasco

Menstruating in the month of June / Elynia Ruth S. Mabanglo

Pinay's letter from Brunei / Elynia Ruth S. Mabanglo

Rape / Joi Barrios

Slaying the word / Joi Barrios

To the woman bare on the shores of obong / Rene Estella Amper.

The historian as creator (excerpt from Kalantiaw) / Rene O. Villanueva