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Title Author Year
Bury Me in a Free Land Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798
The Rhodora Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two Loves Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll 1872
Night Was Done Mikhail Kuzmin 1921
Morning Song Sylvia Plath 1966
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee 1986
Love’s Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear 1871
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go] William Shakespeare 1623
The Song of Despair Pablo Neruda 1969
A Jelly-Fish Marianne Moore 1909
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r E. E. Cummings 1923
Gitanjali 11 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me] William Shakespeare 1603
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Wilfred Owen 2018
If We Must Die Claude McKay 1919

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