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Title Author Year
Poem [I do not always understand what you say.] James Schuyler 1993
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Be Kind Michael Blumenthal 2011
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
From “The Dead” James Joyce 1914
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
Peace on Earth William Carlos Williams 1917
Star Quilt Roberta Hill Whiteman 1984
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
No crowd that has occurred (111) Emily Dickinson 1929
Mother's Rules Yalie Saweda Kamara 2016
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Rose Song Anne Reeve Aldrich 1889
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
Observation Dorothy Parker 1926
The Spanish Needle Claude McKay 1922
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door Elisabet Velasquez 2021
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 1925

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