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Title Author Year
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
Love Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1870
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Anonymous 1611
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Poem for Haruko June Jordan 2017
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves” William Wordsworth 1804
You Begin Margaret Atwood 1978
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* Countee Cullen 1925
The Miscarriage Dorothea Lasky 2017
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women Alice Duer Miller 1915

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