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Title Author Year
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Personal Poem Frank O’Hara 1964
Silence Thomas Hood 1827
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Parents William Meredith 1980
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
“There Is No Such Thing as the Past” [iii] Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Dear Spanish, Mateo Quispe 2024
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
I Dare You Dorianne Laux 2023
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky Joy Priest 2023
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
Tasting the Earth James Oppenheim 1924
On the Religion of Nature Philip Freneau 1815
Who will believe my verse in time to come (Sonnet 17) William Shakespeare 1904
Imitation Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Storm H.D. 2017
Nature George Herbert 2017
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016

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