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Title Author Year
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Jack Prelutsky 1990
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes 1906
Nocturne José Asunción Silva 1925
the suicide kid Charles Bukowski 2005
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
The Theologian’s Tale; Elizabeth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863
A Woman Is Talking to Death Judy Grahn 2016
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014
The Angel William Blake 1901
Long Distance II Tony Harrison 1984
Mango Poem Regie Cabico 2014
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
To a Locomotive in Winter Walt Whitman 1891
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
There was earth inside them Paul Celan 2020
The Falling Star Sara Teasdale 1930
Their Pasts Ama Codjoe 2026
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895

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