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Title Author Year
Eternity William Blake 1880
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe 1820
Self-Pity D. H. Lawrence 1929
Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene II [Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds] William Shakespeare 1597
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
One Today Richard Blanco 2016
Shoulders Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key 1814
Habitation Margaret Atwood 2016
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
When Giving Is All We Have Alberto Ríos 2014
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns 1788
The Duel Eugene Field 1894
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
I measure every Grief I meet (561) Emily Dickinson 1951
Theme for English B Langston Hughes 1994
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830

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