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Title Author Year
His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley 1776
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
[O were my love yon Lilac fair] Robert Burns 1793
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 1994
Summer Night, Riverside Sara Teasdale 1915
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done] William Shakespeare 2016
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears] William Shakespeare 2017
Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen 1920
To An Athlete Dying Young A. E. Housman 1896
August Algernon Charles Swinburne 1904
Walking Around Pablo Neruda 2016
To make a prairie (1755) Emily Dickinson 1951
Uriel Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself] Walt Whitman 1891
How to Triumph Like a Girl Ada Limón 2018
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830
The New Love Dorothy Parker 1926

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