Poems

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Title	Author	Year
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	Robert Herrick	1648
Dreams	Langston Hughes	1994
The Road Not Taken	Robert Frost	1916
O Me! O Life!	Walt Whitman	1891
Life is Fine	Langston Hughes	1994
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage]	William Shakespeare	1623
Archaic Torso of Apollo	Rainer Maria Rilke	1995
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?]	William Shakespeare	1623
If—	Rudyard Kipling	1910
I Dare You	Dorianne Laux	2023
For the Candlelight	Angelina Weld Grimké	1927
At Sixty-Five	Henri Cole	2022
The Nightingale to the Workman	Morris Rosenfeld	1914
At The Corner of New Orleans and Frontier - At Disneyland	Matt Mason	2022
Youth	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Memphis Blues	Sterling A. Brown	1922
[Know thou well this world its state...]	Khushal Khan Khattak	1890
Caprice	Countee Cullen	1925
Advice to Youth	Countee Cullen	1925
Song for a Banjo Dance	Langston Hughes	1926

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