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Olney Hymns, XXXII [The Shining Light] William Cowper 1779
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
The Task, Book I, The Sofa [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
Upon Shark Robert Herrick 1823
Flying Fish: An Ode [excerpt] Charles Wharton Stork 1917
Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] Shido 1902
The Shark William Henry Venable 1909
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
Submarine Mountains Cale Young Rice 1921
The Bluefish Isaac McLellan 1886
The Immanent God Cale Young Rice 1916
Summer [excerpt] James Thomson 1727
The Shark Isaac McLellan 1891
In a Breath Carl Sandburg 1916
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? Robert Graves 1918
Bulb Planting Time Edgar Guest 1922
Tender Buttons [Apple] Gertrude Stein 1914
What Do I Care Sara Teasdale 1920
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
Loam Carl Sandburg 1918

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