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Title Author Year
Break, Break, Break Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
Song of Myself, 32 Walt Whitman 1891
Butter Elizabeth Alexander 2017
A Story Li-Young Lee 1990
Immigrant Blues Li-Young Lee 2008
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
A Woman Is Talking to Death Judy Grahn 2016
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names Assétou Xango 2017
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
sisters Lucille Clifton 1989
Book of Nonsense, 1, 10 & 12 Edward Lear 1846
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
What Was Told, That Jalal al-Din Rumi 2002
After great pain a formal feeling comes — (175) Emily Dickinson 1929
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Jack Prelutsky 1990
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
October Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
To me, fair friend, you never can be old (Sonnet 104) William Shakespeare 2016

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