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Title Author Year
Aubade to Langston Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
Rouen, Place de la Pucelle Maria White Lowell 1853
Heroisms, 4, 5 Dan Beachy-Quick 2010
Dead Brother Super Hero Michael Dickman 2010
The Art of Poetry [excerpt] Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1674
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music John Dryden 1697
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Theodore and Honoria Giovanni Boccaccio 1700
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885 Walt Whitman 1891
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art Frank O’Hara 1957
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
My hero bares his nerves Dylan Thomas 2003
Survivors—Found Joan Murray 2001
Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky 1980

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