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Title Author Year
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
Forever Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you Kevin Varrone 2013
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Long Weekend Megan Pinto 2026
For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1973] Robert Creeley 2016
Love’s Secret William Blake 1863
The Day Is Done Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1845
To the Daisy William Wordsworth 1807
A Decade Amy Lowell 1921
Travelling William Wordsworth 1802
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
El Dorado Edgar Allan Poe 1849
The Testing-Tree Stanley Kunitz 1971
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll 1882
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
Zone Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
Tell Me a Story Robert Penn Warren 1985

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