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Title Author Year
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
At the Zoo William Makepeace Thackeray 1863
maggie and milly and molly and may E. E. Cummings 1956
The Tyger William Blake 1794
Sick Shel Silverstein 2003
One Today Richard Blanco 2016
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Eugene Field 1889
Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson 1917
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 1871
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face Jack Prelutsky 1984
Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there] Hughes Mearns 1922
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe 1849
from “Phantasus” Arno Holz 1922
Country of Water Mahogany L. Browne 2022
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Seed of Mango, Seed of Maize Lynne Thompson 2007
from “What kind of times are these?” Penina Ava Taesali 2022
Naming the Baby Yesenia Montilla 2021

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