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Title Author Year
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Magdalene Marie Howe 2013
Marriage William Carlos Williams 1916
Work Without Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1825
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
In the Library Charles Simic 2008
The Song of Hiawatha [Excerpt] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855
Blackout Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
Home Burial Robert Frost 1916
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
“There Is No Such Thing as the Past” [iii] Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
At Sunset Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1926
An Earth Song Langston Hughes 1925
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d. Mark Twain 1885
Haunted Siegfried Sassoon 1917
Sonnet to Liberty Oscar Wilde 1881
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman
High Dangerous Catherine Pierce 2019
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018

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