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Title Author Year
You Can’t Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
The Gift of India Sarojini Naidu 1917
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale] William Shakespeare 1596
Forgetfulness Billy Collins 1999
The Sugar-Plum Tree Eugene Field 1892
Put Out My Eyes Rainer Maria Rilke 1905
Good-Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen 1919
Bright Star John Keats 1838
From “The Temple of Nature,” Canto I (The Production of Life) [III. Now rose in purple pomp the breezy dawn,] Erasmus Darwin 1791
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
It’s all I have to bring today (26) Emily Dickinson 1890
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923
How Doth the Little Busy Bee Isaac Watts 1715
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
To me, fair friend, you never can be old (Sonnet 104) William Shakespeare 2016
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music John Dryden 1697
It will be Summer eventually — (195) Emily Dickinson 1929
Post-Diagnosis Sam Sax 2017

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