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Title Author Year
The World Jennifer Chang 2017
Preludes T. S. Eliot 1920
I heard a Fly buzz (465) Emily Dickinson 1998
A Pact Ezra Pound 1913
A New National Anthem Ada Limón 2018
Mr. Grumpledump’s Song Shel Silverstein 2004
Dream Song 1 John Berryman 1959
The Rider Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Conversation in Isolation Harryette Mullen 2021
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent John Milton 1655
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
The Good-Morrow John Donne 1633
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best Andrea Gibson 2021
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917
The Gift to Sing James Weldon Johnson 2015
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006
Lines for a Sun-Dial Alfred Noyes 1907
Regret Denise Low 2025
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923

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