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Title Author Year
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
I see the boys of summer Dylan Thomas 1939
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves” William Wordsworth 1804
The Gift to Sing James Weldon Johnson 2015
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Poem for Haruko June Jordan 2017
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Love Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1870
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
Leaves Lloyd Schwartz 1992
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Anonymous 1611
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
Goodtime Jesus James Tate 1979
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917
Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About Judith Viorst 1981
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989

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