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Title Author Year
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 1807
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
Dreams Langston Hughes 1994
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 1916
Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón 2017
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] William Shakespeare 1623
Invictus William Ernest Henley 1888
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
A New Year's Greeting to a College Senior George Marion McClellan 1916
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet Joy Harjo 2019
Ms. Schadenfreude's Anti-Valedictory Grace Bauer 2018
A House Called Tomorrow Alberto Ríos 2018
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
Ongoing Jenny Xie 2018
Prayer Galway Kinnell 2018
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
Religious Instructions for Young Casualties Sandra María Esteves 2017
The Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017
Song of the Open Road, 1 Walt Whitman 2016

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