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Title Author Year
Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley 1818
Fern Hill Dylan Thomas 1937
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden 1940
Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón 2017
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven W. B. Yeats 1889
Paul Revere’s Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1861
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Eugene Field 1889
On Love Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Tyger William Blake 1794
In Flanders Fields John McCrae 1915
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18) William Shakespeare 1609
Because I could not stop for Death (479) Emily Dickinson 1951
The Unknown Citizen W. H. Auden 1940
There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale 2003
The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained] William Shakespeare 1600
Still I Rise Maya Angelou 1978
On Joy and Sorrow Kahlil Gibran 1923
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond E. E. Cummings 1923
On Pain Kahlil Gibran 1923

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