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Title Author Year
The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats 1890
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 1871
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
When Giving Is All We Have Alberto Ríos 2014
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
The Way Through the Woods Rudyard Kipling 1910
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood William Wordsworth 1807
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot 1915
A Time to Talk Robert Frost 1916
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20 Homer 2000
I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman 1891
We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns 1788
Love at First Sight Wisława Szymborska 2016
His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley 1776
Be Drunk Charles Baudelaire 1997

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