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Title Author Year
The Gate Marie Howe 2017
As I Grew Older Langston Hughes 1926
Mending Wall Robert Frost 1916
I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman 1891
Good Bones Maggie Smith 2016
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 1927
His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley 1776
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Sailing to Byzantium W. B. Yeats 1928
The Way Through the Woods Rudyard Kipling 1910
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
My Last Duchess Robert Browning 1842
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20 Homer 2000
Thunderstorm Stack Anne Carson 2015
Lullaby W. H. Auden 1940

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