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Title Author Year
Their Pasts Ama Codjoe 2026
Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves” William Wordsworth 1804
If I should die (54) Emily Dickinson 1860
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Relax Ellen Bass 2014
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
I saw a man pursuing the horizon Stephen Crane 2013
Six-Legged Blessing of Strength Michael Walsh 2026
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
not an elegy for Mike Brown Danez Smith 2016
Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About Judith Viorst 1981
Richard Cory Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1982
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
Love Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1870
Remembrance Emily Brontë 1845
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923

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