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Title Author Year
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter] William Shakespeare 2016
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
The Lamb William Blake 1789
Leap Year Poem Mother Goose 1719
Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley 1885
For Keeps Joy Harjo 2019
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?] Walt Whitman 1891
Final Stop Ravi Shankar 2026
Fire and Ice Robert Frost 1920
The Song of the Jellicles T. S. Eliot 1939
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
London William Blake 1794
Halloween Robert Burns 1785
Wait Galway Kinnell 2016
How to Triumph Like a Girl Ada Limón 2018
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116) William Shakespeare 1609
Sci-Fi Tracy K. Smith 2011
Eletelephony Laura Elizabeth Richards 1932

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