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1. Do not go gentle into that good night
   by Dylan Thomas

2. Dreams
   by Langston Hughes

3. The Road Not Taken
   by Robert Frost

4. We Real Cool
    by Gwendolyn Brooks

5. I, Too, Sing America
   by Langston Hughes

6. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
   by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7. One Art
    by Elizabeth Bishop

8. Because I could not stop for Death (712)
   by Emily Dickinson

9. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
   by William Shakespeare

10. This Is Just To Say
   by William Carlos Williams

11. somewhere i have never travelled, gladly        beyond
   by E. E. Cummings

12. A Blessing
    by James Wright

13. O Captain! My Captain!
   by Walt Whitman

14. As I Walked Out One Evening
   by W. H. Auden

15. Jabberwocky
    by Lewis Carroll

16. I Hear America Singing
    by Walt Whitman

17. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
    by Edna St. Vincent Millay

18. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
   by Langston Hughes

19. The Tyger
    by William Blake

20. The Emperor of Ice-Cream
    by Wallace Stevens

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Ode

Ode on a Grecian Urn
by John Keats

Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ode on a Nightingale
by John Keats

Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy
by Donald Justice

Do not go gentle into that good night