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Rudyard Kipling’s “If”

Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

Louise Glück’s “Night Thoughts”

Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphors”

Phillis Wheatley’s “His Excellency, General George Washington”

Rita Dove’s “Wayfarer’s Night Song” (after Goethe)

Rita Dove’s “Your Tired, Your Poor…”

“Lord Randal”

Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”

John Donne’s “Hymn to God the Father”