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Title Author Year
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 1871
Halloween Robert Burns 1785
The Crocodile Lewis Carroll 1865
A Poison Tree William Blake 1794
Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath 1981
Small Kindnesses Danusha Laméris 2020
On the Pulse of Morning Maya Angelou 1993
She Walks in Beauty Lord George Gordon Byron 1815
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10) John Donne 1633
Alone Maya Angelou 1975
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick 1648
Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
In Memory of W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden 1940
Failing and Flying Jack Gilbert 2005
Poetry Marianne Moore 1920
Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley 1885
Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) Nikki Giovanni 2017
The Soul selects her own Society (303) Emily Dickinson 1890
[since feeling is first] E. E. Cummings 1926

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