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Title Author Year
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only) Derek Walcott 1964
Aureng-Zebe, Prologue John Dryden 1675
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1994
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only) W. H. Auden 1964
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Theodore and Honoria Giovanni Boccaccio 1700
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
The Amaranth Vachel Lindsay 1914
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Vachel Lindsay 1914
The Dandelion Vachel Lindsay 1916
Beyond the Years Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1875
Ancient Theories Nick Lantz 2010
Green Shade Henri Cole 2010
Hey You Adrian Blevins 2010
Why They Went Elizabeth Bradfield 2010
How Much? Carl Sandburg 1922
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884

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