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Title Author Year
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
Let Everything Happen to You Natalie Eilbert 2015
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
A Hand Jane Hirshfield 2001
Po' Boy Blues Langston Hughes 1994
Dusting Marilyn Nelson 1994
The Changeling Charlotte Mew 1921
Love’s Growth John Donne 1633
Espergesia César Vallejo 1918
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
May Day Sara Teasdale 1920
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let It Be Forgotten Sara Teasdale 1920
The Coliseum Edgar Allan Poe 2018
OBIT [The Blue Dress] Victoria Chang 2018
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
The Oven-Bird Robert Frost 1916

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