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Title Author Year
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key 1814
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot 1915
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene II [Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds] William Shakespeare 1597
Resignation Nikki Giovanni 2016
A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe 1820
The Duel Eugene Field 1894
Quarantine Eavan Boland 2008
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
Habitation Margaret Atwood 2016
When Giving Is All We Have Alberto Ríos 2014
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees Muriel Leung 2026
Shoulders Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
I measure every Grief I meet (561) Emily Dickinson 1951
One Today Richard Blanco 2016
Miracles Walt Whitman 1881
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016

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