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Title Author Year
The Fly William Blake 1794
A Small Needful Fact Ross Gay 2016
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20 Homer 2000
Ode of Girls’ Things Sharon Olds 2015
I Am Not Yours Sara Teasdale 1917
I taste a liquor never brewed (214) Emily Dickinson 1951
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done] William Shakespeare 2016
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] Frank O’Hara 1964
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
One Today Richard Blanco 2016
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
Song Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1995
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams 1962
Chanson d’automne Paul Verlaine 2019
The Soldier Rupert Brooke 1914
Romance Sonámbulo Federico García Lorca 1955
Statement of Purpose Kyle Carrero Lopez 2026
For Keeps Joy Harjo 2019
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859

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