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Title Author Year
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 1916
Dreams Langston Hughes 1994
Archaic Torso of Apollo Rainer Maria Rilke 1995
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick 1648
Be Drunk Charles Baudelaire 1997
Lullaby W. H. Auden 1940
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] William Shakespeare 1623
It Couldn't Be Done Edgar Guest 1919
O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman 1891
First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920
Nothing Twice Wisława Szymborska 1998
Life Charlotte Brontë 2016
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet Joy Harjo 2019
Life is Fine Langston Hughes 1994
For Keeps Joy Harjo 2019
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell 1681
How to Triumph Like a Girl Ada Limón 2018
The Layers Stanley Kunitz 1978

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