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Title Author Year
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son] William Shakespeare 1611
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you Kevin Varrone 2013
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part] William Shakespeare 2017
From “Nox” [gentes] Anne Carson 2010
Fame is a fickle food (1659) Emily Dickinson 1957
An Apple Gathering Christina Rossetti 1861
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Spirits of the Dead Edgar Allan Poe 1829
The Hag Robert Herrick 1648
It’s all I have to bring today (26) Emily Dickinson 1890
Freeway 280 Lorna Dee Cervantes 1981
summer, somewhere Danez Smith 2016
A Golden Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
In the Still, Star-Lit Night Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
How Doth the Little Busy Bee Isaac Watts 1715
How I Became a Madman (Prologue) Kahlil Gibran 1918
Poem to First Love Matthew Yeager 2016
The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes 1833
The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
Christmas Trees Robert Frost 1916

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