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Title Author Year
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps Andrea Gibson 2021
Horse Katie Chaple 2026
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1820
Nonsense Alphabet Edward Lear 1846
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
Persephone the Wanderer Louise Glück 2006
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth Fatimah Asghar 2019
A Nation's Strength William Ralph Emerson 1847
Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges 1999
To a Stranger Walt Whitman 1900
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
October Helen Hunt Jackson 2015
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns 1794
[To find a kiss of yours] Federico García Lorca 2017
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell] John Keats 1817
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Wilfred Owen 2018

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