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Title Author Year
Bury Me in a Free Land Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll 1872
Autumn Leaves Marilyn Chin 1994
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
the sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
Things We Carry on the Sea Wang Ping 2018
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
Salt and Sand Kathryn Kysar 2026
Song of the Open Road, 1 Walt Whitman 2016
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Horse Katie Chaple 2026
Halloween Madison Julius Cawein 2017
October Evalyn Callahan Shaw 2019
Preludes T. S. Eliot 1920
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Ada Limón 2024
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1900
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817

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