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Title Author Year
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps Andrea Gibson 2021
Sea Fever John Masefield 1917
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
Forgetfulness Billy Collins 1999
[To find a kiss of yours] Federico García Lorca 2017
We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born Oscar Gonzales 2016
Election Day, November, 1884 Walt Whitman 1891
The White House Claude McKay 1919
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
Acquainted with the Night Robert Frost 1928
The Pasture Robert Frost 1915
Song [When I am dead, my dearest] Christina Rossetti 1862
Poem for a Suicide Matthew Zapruder 2023
Speaking Tree Joy Harjo 2019
Home Is so Sad Philip Larkin 1988
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent John Milton 1655
I Have to Write the Book You’ll Burn Vievee Francis 2026
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
We never know how high we are (1176) Emily Dickinson 1890

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