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Title Author Year
I cannot live with You (640) Emily Dickinson 1951
Life is Fine Langston Hughes 1994
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 1927
Design Robert Frost 1916
A Prayer for my Daughter W. B. Yeats 1921
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII [I don’t love you as if you were a rose] Pablo Neruda 2022
When Giving Is All We Have Alberto Ríos 2014
Ghost Music Robert Graves 2016
The World Is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth 1807
Birches Robert Frost 1916
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
Lullaby W. H. Auden 1940
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern David McCord 1952
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969

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