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Title Author Year
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
The Woman and the Flame Aimé Césaire 2011
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
History Carol Ann Duffy 2003
Elevator Boy Langston Hughes 1926
A Winter Evening Alexander Pushkin 1910
The Falling of the Leaves W. B. Yeats 2017
Please Read Mary Ruefle 2016
The Year Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
To My Mother Christina Rossetti 1842
Danse Russe William Carlos Williams 1962
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
Or I shall live your epitaph to make (Sonnet 81) William Shakespeare 1904
The Giver of Stars Amy Lowell 1914
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Ghost Music Robert Graves 2016
Francesca Ezra Pound 1909
A Bird Song Christina Rossetti 1873
Happiness Jane Kenyon 2001

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