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Title Author Year
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
A Time to Talk Robert Frost 1916
The Second Coming W. B. Yeats 1920
A Poison Tree William Blake 1794
My Shadow Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Morning in the Burned House Margaret Atwood 1995
The New Colossus Emma Lazarus 2018
Dead Stars Ada Limón 2018
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII [I don’t love you as if you were a rose] Pablo Neruda 2022
Life Charlotte Brontë 2016
Small Kindnesses Danusha Laméris 2020
First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920
my father moved through dooms of love E. E. Cummings 1991
Good Bones Maggie Smith 2016
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–15 Homer 1997
To You Walt Whitman 1891
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) Nikki Giovanni 2017
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet Joy Harjo 2019
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Poem Langston Hughes 1926

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