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Title Author Year
The Weary Blues Langston Hughes 1926
On Living Nâzim Hikmet 1994
"The world is a beautiful place" Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017
The Bells Edgar Allan Poe 1850
The Soul has Bandaged moments (360) Emily Dickinson 2016
What the Living Do Marie Howe 1998
Greensickness Laurel Chen 2022
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe 1820
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be] William Shakespeare 1603
Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1922
The Index Rena Priest 2020
Invictus William Ernest Henley 1888
The Splendid Body Rebecca Lindenberg 2023
Dream Nest Dana Levin 2023
[since feeling is first] E. E. Cummings 1926
Song of Myself, 51 Walt Whitman 1891
Because I could not stop for Death (479) Emily Dickinson 1951
In a Disused Graveyard Robert Frost 2023

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