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Title Author Year
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you Kevin Varrone 2013
Zone Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
Beans Mary Oliver 2004
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll 1882
The Day Is Done Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1845
To the Daisy William Wordsworth 1807
Tell Me a Story Robert Penn Warren 1985
The Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier 1878
Love’s Secret William Blake 1863
The Testing-Tree Stanley Kunitz 1971
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249) Emily Dickinson 1861
Gitanjali 50 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
My People Langston Hughes 1922
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
Travelling William Wordsworth 1802
To All My Friends May Yang 2017

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