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The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams 1962
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
Sick Shel Silverstein 2003
On Children Kahlil Gibran 1923
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman 1891
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas 1937
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 2007
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
Epitaph to a Dog George Gordon Byron 1808
The Aeneid, Book I, [Arms and the man I sing] Virgil 1907
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
The Naming of Cats T. S. Eliot 2019
Dreams Langston Hughes 1994
Dead Stars Ada Limón 2018

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