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Title Author Year
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 2007
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
Epitaph to a Dog George Gordon Byron 1808
The Aeneid, Book I [Arms and the man I sing] Virgil 1907
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
The Naming of Cats T. S. Eliot 2019
Dreams Langston Hughes 1994
Dead Stars Ada Limón 2018
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Scaffolding Seamus Heaney 2016
Song of Myself, V Walt Whitman 1891
A Poison Tree William Blake 1794
In Memory of W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden 1940
Having it Out with Melancholy Jane Kenyon 1993

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