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Title Author Year
On Reason and Passion Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
Burning Car Tires Octavio Quintanilla 2026
Putting in the Seed Robert Frost 2016
Forever Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
I Have a Rendezvous With Life Countee Cullen 1916
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull Lord George Gordon Byron 1922
Waking in the Blue Robert Lowell 1976
Winter Walter de la Mare 1906
October Hills John Rollin Ridge 2017
How Doth the Little Busy Bee Isaac Watts 1715
Buffalo Bill ’s E. E. Cummings 1976
It’s all I have to bring today (26) Emily Dickinson 1890
A Woman Waits for Me Walt Whitman 1891
Go ahead, Lord, break our harp Jalal al-Din Rumi 2026
And You . . . Jason Allen-Paisant 2024
summer, somewhere Danez Smith 2016
Navajo Mountain Norla Chee 2022
Symptom Recital Dorothy Parker 1926
How I Became a Madman (Prologue) Kahlil Gibran 1918

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