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Title Author Year
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick 1648
A Prayer for my Daughter W. B. Yeats 1921
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot 1915
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 1807
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
Fern Hill Dylan Thomas 1937
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas 1937
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Scaffolding Seamus Heaney 2016
The Angel William Blake 1901
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] William Shakespeare 1623
Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1922
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood William Wordsworth 1807
Humility Mark Gibbons 2021
Being pregnant is a dream Nellie Wong 2023
Everyone Who Left Us Steven Cramer 2004
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, LII Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1891
Home Norma Elia Cantú 2019
Old Age Maxwell Bodenheim 1918

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