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Title Author Year
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns 1788
Alone Maya Angelou 1975
maggie and milly and molly and may E. E. Cummings 1956
Lenore Edgar Allan Poe 1850
[little tree] E. E. Cummings 1920
Heart to Heart Rita Dove 2017
To Autumn John Keats 1820
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) William Shakespeare 1609
On Death Kahlil Gibran 1923
A Prayer for my Daughter W. B. Yeats 1921
Shoulders Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
On Marriage Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1898
This Is Not a Small Voice Sonia Sanchez 2018
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 2017
won’t you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton 1991
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Anonymous 1611
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
I cannot live with You (640) Emily Dickinson 1951

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