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’Ittle Touzle Head
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
“That Blessed Hope”
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
“Oh, That ‘Twere Possible!”
Alice Duer Miller
[“Oh, Give Me Back My Bended Bow”]
William Walker, Jr.
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]
William Wordsworth
[little tree]
E. E. Cummings
[The White Man Wants the Indian’s Home]
James Harris Guy
[To Allot, or Not to Allot]
Alexander Posey
A Banjo Song
Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky
Lewis Carroll
A Country Boy in Winter
Sarah Orne Jewett
A Dedication
Lucian B. Watkins
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