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Title Author Year
Instructions for Having a Soul Joseph Fasano
On Living Nâzim Hikmet 1994
The Witch Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1893
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray 1751
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian Ross Gay 2016
To You Walt Whitman 1891
Faces in the Street Henry Lawson 1903
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Chicago Carl Sandburg 1914
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798 William Wordsworth 1798
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1900
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1813
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
After Words Kelly Beard 2026
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
Walking Around Pablo Neruda 2016
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] William Carlos Williams 1962
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817

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