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Title Author Year
Proverbs of Hell William Blake 1790
The Lamb William Blake 1789
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20 Homer 2000
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1898
First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Morning Song Sylvia Plath 1966
Love at First Sight Wisława Szymborska 2016
Nine Spice Mix Zeina Azzam 2022
October (section I) Louise Glück 2004
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns 1788
A Time to Talk Robert Frost 1916
The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Moon Robert Louis Stevenson 2019
Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) John Donne 1633

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