Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Poem	Langston Hughes	1926
The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]	William Shakespeare	1600
Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI, [My Native Land]	Sir Walter Scott	1805
The Land of Counterpane	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod	Eugene Field	1889
Little Orphant Annie	James Whitcomb Riley	1885
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage]	William Shakespeare	1623
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)	William Shakespeare	1609
Adonais, 49-52, [Go thou to Rome]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1821
To My Dear and Loving Husband	Anne Bradstreet	1678
A Dream Within a Dream	Edgar Allan Poe	1820
Ulysses	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
On Self-Knowledge	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be]	William Shakespeare	1603
Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene II [Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds]	William Shakespeare	1597
Dream-Land	Edgar Allan Poe	1844
Jabberwocky	Lewis Carroll	1871
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
Mother to Son	Langston Hughes	1922
The Power of the Dog	Rudyard Kipling	1922

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