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Title Author Year
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 1916
Invictus William Ernest Henley 1888
Dreams Langston Hughes 1994
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón 2017
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 1807
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] William Shakespeare 1623
It Couldn't Be Done Edgar Guest 1919
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet Joy Harjo 2019
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
A House Called Tomorrow Alberto Ríos 2018
Song of the Open Road, 1 Walt Whitman 2016
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
Famous Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Up-Hill Christina Rossetti 1818
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884
The Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
Beyond the Years Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913

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