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Title Author Year
Middle School Dance Nicole Tallman 2025
The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe 1846
The River Village Tu Fu 1921
brief lesson on marriage G. C. Waldrep 2019
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
Consolation Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death Lloyd Schwartz 2014
Summer in the South Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne 1633
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 1949
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
Long, Too Long America Walt Whitman
Who will believe my verse in time to come (Sonnet 17) William Shakespeare 1904
Elegy Before Death Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Rooms Remembered Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2015
the lost baby poem Lucille Clifton 1991
A Man’s A Man For A’ That Robert Burns 1795
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478

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