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Title Author Year
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
Match Jason Reynolds 2020
Confessional Hieu Minh Nguyen 2019
Ice Would Suffice Risa Denenberg 2017
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
Idyll Siegfried Sassoon 1920
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819
A Serenade Pierre Dupont 2025
Commanders of the Faithful William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Dusk in Autumn Sara Teasdale 2017
What Now? Gary Soto 2016
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66) William Shakespeare 1609
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Song of Myself, 3 Walt Whitman 1891
Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson 1837
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' Agha Shahid Ali 1987
My City James Weldon Johnson 1922
[An ancient pond!] Matsuo Bashō 1899

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