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Title Author Year
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle Henry Charles Beeching 1895
The Wild Honeysuckle Philip Freneau 1785
Futility Wilfred Owen 1917
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France Alan Seeger 2017
Defeat Kahlil Gibran 1918
Her Voice Oscar Wilde 2018
Farewell Francisca Aguirre 2016
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you] William Shakespeare 2016
An Acrostic Edgar Allan Poe 1911
Abstraction Anne Marie Rooney 2025
“You and I Are Disappearing” Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
On Crime and Punishment Kahlil Gibran 1923
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
My Dead Friends Marie Howe 2022
Deflated Rubber Turkey Sawako Nakayasu 2018
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Anne Sexton 1981
Gitanjali 69 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
America Claude McKay 1922
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964

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