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Title Author Year
My Love Must Be As Free Henry David Thoreau 1943
A Certain Lady Dorothy Parker 1926
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
The Vampire Madison Julius Cawein 1896
The Paper Nautilus Marianne Moore 1923
Youth Langston Hughes 1925
Leaving the University Gym Sasha Pimentel 2017
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker John Olivares Espinoza 2017
The Voice Thomas Hardy 1915
My Friend Tree Lorine Niedecker 1985
What the Thrush Said John Keats 2015
I Have a Rendezvous With Life Countee Cullen 1916
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI) Sir Walter Scott 1805
The Teacher Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
First Light Chen Chen 2017
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale] William Shakespeare 1596
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle Henry Charles Beeching 1895
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth Phillis Wheatley 1773
Love Song Dorothy Parker 1926

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