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On Work Kahlil Gibran 1923
So Much Happiness Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
After Apple-Picking Robert Frost 1914
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Dylan Thomas 1937
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 1994
Loveliest of Trees A. E. Housman 1896
The Purple Cow Gelett Burgess 1895
The Lamb William Blake 1789
Theme in Yellow Carl Sandburg 1916
The Duel Eugene Field 1894
Let Them Not Say Jane Hirshfield 2017
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–15 Homer 1997
Chanson d’automne Paul Verlaine 2019
Instructions for Having a Soul Joseph Fasano
Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) John Donne 1633
Our Casuarina Tree Toru Dutt 1882
Good Bones Maggie Smith 2016
No! Thomas Hood 1844
In This Place (An American Lyric) Amanda Gorman 2018

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