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Title Author Year
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Stealing The Scream Monica Youn 2003
Parents William Meredith 1980
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
Mont Blanc Percy Bysshe Shelley 1816
Song of Myself, 49 Walt Whitman 1891
Everything That Ever Was Tracy K. Smith 2018
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
Ditty Kevin Young 2016
The Planting of the Apple-Tree William Cullen Bryant 1864
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant 1832
The Sandman Margaret Thomson Janvier 1912
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
To My Mother Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With Suzanne Rancourt 2004
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858
This Evening Let’s Adrienne Rich 2004

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