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Title Author Year
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d Walt Whitman 1981
The Tradition Jericho Brown 2015
Mr. Pope Allen Tate 1928
On Houses Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes 1926
Chicago Carl Sandburg 1914
George Gray Edgar Lee Masters 1915
Youth and Age Kahlil Gibran 1926
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
Basket of Figs Ellen Bass 2002
Forever is composed of Nows (25) Emily Dickinson 1929
Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1982
Persephone the Wanderer Louise Glück 2006
Mother o’ Mine Rudyard Kipling 1892
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen 1919
Not Brave Maha Hashwi 2026
Forgetfulness Billy Collins 1999
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music John Dryden 1697

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