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Title Author Year
Persephone the Wanderer Louise Glück 2006
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1900
Halloween Arthur Peterson 1916
Autumn Leaves Marilyn Chin 1994
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns 1794
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell] John Keats 1817
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll 1872
You Begin Margaret Atwood 1978
the sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
Preludes T. S. Eliot 1920
Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Halloween Madison Julius Cawein 2017
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps Andrea Gibson 2021
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Ada Limón 2024

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