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Title Author Year
Kingfisher Hai-Dang Phan 2026
A Small Needful Fact Ross Gay 2016
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 1994
Alone Edgar Allan Poe 1875
You Foolish Men Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
When Giving Is All We Have Alberto Ríos 2014
Fall, Leaves, Fall Emily Brontë 2017
If We Must Die Claude McKay 1919
Be Drunk Charles Baudelaire 1997
Perhaps the World Ends Here Joy Harjo 2015
At the Zoo William Makepeace Thackeray 1863
Theme in Yellow Carl Sandburg 1916
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) William Shakespeare 1609
To a Poor Old Woman William Carlos Williams 1962
Fire and Ice Robert Frost 1920
Crossing the Bar Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1889
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears] William Shakespeare 2017
Nothing Twice Wisława Szymborska 1998
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830
London William Blake 1794

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