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Title Author Year
The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats 1890
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe 1820
Auguries of Innocence William Blake 1863
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot 1915
Thunderstorm Stack Anne Carson 2015
We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
The Way Through the Woods Rudyard Kipling 1910
Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley 1776
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20 Homer 2000
When Giving Is All We Have Alberto Ríos 2014
I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman 1891
A Time to Talk Robert Frost 1916
Love at First Sight Wisława Szymborska 2016
Proverbs of Hell William Blake 1790

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