Poems

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Title	Author	Year
A Line-storm Song	Robert Frost	1913
The Weary Blues	Langston Hughes	1926
Batter my heart, three person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14)	John Donne	1633
[The cry of the cicada]	Matsuo Basho	1690
Dear March—Come in—(1320)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Haunted Houses	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
Halloween	Robert Burns	1785
Christmas Bells	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1865
Thanksgiving	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	2017
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	Robert Herrick	1648
Christmas Carol	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	Edward Lear	1871
A Visit from St. Nicholas	Clement Clarke Moore	1823
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Auld Lang Syne	Robert Burns	1788
[little tree]	E. E. Cummings	1920
To Autumn	John Keats	1820
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)	William Shakespeare	1609
On Death	Kahlil Gibran	1923
The Ballad of Reading Gaol	Oscar Wilde	1898

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1913