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Title Author Year
On the Pulse of Morning Maya Angelou 1993
Small Kindnesses Danusha Laméris 2020
The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1854
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath 1981
In Memory of W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden 1940
Alone Maya Angelou 1975
Failing and Flying Jack Gilbert 2005
A Poison Tree William Blake 1794
Christmas Bells Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1865
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick 1648
She Walks in Beauty Lord George Gordon Byron 1815
Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley 1885
The Soul selects her own Society (303) Emily Dickinson 1890
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10) John Donne 1633
Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe 1850
Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) Nikki Giovanni 2017
maggie and milly and molly and may E. E. Cummings 1956
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Joseph Fasano 2023

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