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Title Author Year
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
A Man’s A Man For A’ That Robert Burns 1795
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III [excerpt] George Gordon Byron 1818
My Childhood Home I See Again Abraham Lincoln 1847
To Rosa Abraham Lincoln 1858
August Algernon Charles Swinburne 1904
Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud? William Knox 1876
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank] William Shakespeare 1603
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes 1833
An August Midnight Thomas Hardy 1901
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
Gulls William Carlos Williams 1917
Sea Fever John Masefield 1917
You Are Fire Eaters Marianne Moore 1909
Pyrotechnics Amy Lowell 1916
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
The maidens came Anonymous 1700
Birth of Canada as a Nation, July First, 1867 James McIntyre 1889
Ghost House Robert Frost 1913

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