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Title Author Year
June Light Richard Wilbur 1947
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
Sea Fever John Masefield 1917
Wanting to Die Anne Sexton 1981
To market, to market 2004
Alone Edgar Allan Poe 1875
The Calf-Path Sam Foss 1895
Song of Myself, V Walt Whitman 1891
A Blessing for Wedding Jane Hirshfield 2011
Nonsense Alphabet Edward Lear 1846
Let Me Begin Again Major Jackson 2021
Up-Hill Christina Rossetti 1818
Dream Song 1 John Berryman 1959
Nayika at the crawfish boil Kiran Bath 2026
Yours Daniel Hoffman 2003
I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone Rainer Maria Rilke 2001
Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
[Like a white stone] Anna Akhmatova 1921
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913

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