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Title Author Year
YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON! Sasha Debevec-McKenney 2020
Foul Ball David Bottoms 2018
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
The Song Of The Chattahoochee Sidney Lanier 1877
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Sonnet 43) William Shakespeare 1904
Tell Me a Story Robert Penn Warren 1985
Songs for the People Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1896
Gitanjali 50 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson 1888
After great pain a formal feeling comes — (175) Emily Dickinson 1929
Song of Myself, 20 Walt Whitman 1891
[little tree] E. E. Cummings 1920
October Hills John Rollin Ridge 2017
The Star Jane Taylor 1806
Willow Poem William Carlos Williams 2014
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Li Bai 1916
In the House with No Doors Sarah Kay 2023
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899

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