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Title Author Year
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
It Was Like This: You Were Happy Jane Hirshfield 2006
Kissing in Vietnamese Ocean Vuong 2016
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
Things We Carry on the Sea Wang Ping 2018
Dust of Snow Robert Frost 1920
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
St. Telemachus Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1892
Mary's Lamb Sarah Josepha Hale 1830
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Acceptance Robert Frost 1928
Poem for a Suicide Matthew Zapruder 2023
Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood 1843
I look at the world Langston Hughes 2009
The Carrying Ada Limón 2017
The Heart of the Tree Henry Cuyler Bunner 1912

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