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Title Author Year
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling 1892
Two Countries Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Heart is the capital (138) Emily Dickinson 1929
Gitanjali 103 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
I, Lover Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Poem Grace Interrupted Mikko Harvey 2019
Everything That Ever Was Tracy K. Smith 2018
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017
Eros Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Golden Anniversary Wisława Szymborska 2016
Binsey Poplars Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
By the Stream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1900
El Beso Angelina Weld Grimké 1909

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