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Title Author Year
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
Punch James Ciano 2026
A Blessing for Wedding Jane Hirshfield 2011
After Love Sara Teasdale 1917
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
The Rider Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
The Jumblies Edward Lear 1871
Tears, Idle Tears Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1847
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish 1926
Yours Daniel Hoffman 2003
No Second Troy W. B. Yeats 1912
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927
From “Simple Verses” José Martí 2005
Goodtime Jesus James Tate 1979
Darkness Lord George Gordon Byron 1816

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