• first stanza of "Endymion" by John Keats
• O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
• Aquatic Nocturne by Sylvia Plath
• A Book by Emily Dickinson
• One Art BY ELIZABETH BISHOP

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• There is no frigate like a book
• To take us lands away,
• Nor any coursers like a page
• Of prancing poetry.
• This traverse may the poorest take
• Without oppress of toll;
• How frugal is the chariot
• That bears a human soul!