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Title Author Year
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Coronach Sir Walter Scott 1875
My Dream Anonymous 1917
After a Rochester Wedding Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers 2025
Railroad Avenue Langston Hughes 1926
Love in a Time of Covid-19 Craig Santos Perez 2022
Comment Dorothy Parker 1926
Kumulipo Queen Liliʻuokalani 1897
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
The Look Sara Teasdale 1918
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
cutting greens Lucille Clifton 1974
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
A Song of Enchantment Walter de la Mare 1913
I Would Forget Han Yong-un 1926
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1921
The Dawn’s Awake! Otto Leland Bohanan 1922

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