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Title Author Year
The Task, Book I, The Sofa [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
The Debt Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903
Tender Buttons [Chicken] Gertrude Stein 1914
To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820
Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor 1806
For Once, Then, Something Robert Frost 1920
Summer Night, Riverside Sara Teasdale 1915
Warm Summer Sun Mark Twain 1896
Idyll Siegfried Sassoon 1920
Summer Song William Carlos Williams 1917
Upon Shark Robert Herrick 1823
Flying Fish: An Ode [excerpt] Charles Wharton Stork 1917
Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] Shido 1902
The Shark William Henry Venable 1909
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901

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