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Title Author Year
We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
October (section I) Louise Glück 2004
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot 1915
His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley 1776
The Moon Robert Louis Stevenson 2019
Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams 1962
Dumb Luck Catherine Barnett 2026
You Foolish Men Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
November 2: Día de los muertos Alberto Ríos 2019
At the Zoo William Makepeace Thackeray 1863
A Small Needful Fact Ross Gay 2016
Fall, Leaves, Fall Emily Brontë 2017
Ghosts and Fashion Elaine Equi 2015
Nothing Twice Wisława Szymborska 1998
Eating Alone Li-Young Lee 1986
The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
After Apple-Picking Robert Frost 1914
On Work Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830

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