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Title Author Year
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1900
Punch James Ciano 2026
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
Under the Harvest Moon Carl Sandburg 1916
Miscarriage Gregory Fraser 2026
We never know how high we are (1176) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges 1999
It Was Like This: You Were Happy Jane Hirshfield 2006
Song [When I am dead, my dearest] Christina Rossetti 1862
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll 1872
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
Paul Robeson Gwendolyn Brooks 1970
I Loved You Before I Was Born Li-Young Lee 2018
Kissing in Vietnamese Ocean Vuong 2016
The Owner of the Night Mark Doty 2017
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859
The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell 1847

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