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Title Author Year
Beans Mary Oliver 2004
The Lawyers Know Too Much Carl Sandburg 2017
Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
My People Langston Hughes 1922
The Day Is Done Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1845
The Testing-Tree Stanley Kunitz 1971
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
To All My Friends May Yang 2017
There is no frigate like a book (1263) Emily Dickinson 1890
Tell Me a Story Robert Penn Warren 1985
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
A Decade Amy Lowell 1921
Love’s Secret William Blake 1863
Long Weekend Megan Pinto 2026
We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born Oscar Gonzales 2016
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping Adrian Castro 2005
​​In Memoriam [±That after all this I have still chosen life.] Jimin Seo 2026
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part] William Shakespeare 2017
Travelling William Wordsworth 1802

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