swap_horiz The New Colossus Alternatives

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Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address is a 272-word speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedicati...

Speech Ceremonial Patriotic Lincoln

10.0 Brilliant

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Henry V: St. Crispin's Day Speech

Henry V’s speech, drawn from Shakespeare’s play, is a powerful example of Elizabethan rhetoric. Delivered before the Bat...

Speech Ceremonial Patriotic Elizabethan

9.8 Brilliant

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Inaugural Address (Ask Not)

John F. Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Address is a pivotal speech delivered on January 20th. It famously employs the phrase “...

20TH Century Speech Ceremonial Patriotic

9.8 Brilliant

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Song of Myself

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is an expansive 1855 poem central to American literary history. It's notable for its inn...

Lyric Epic 19TH Century Poem

9.7 Brilliant

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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a deeply moving elegy written in 1865 to commemorate Abraha...

19TH Century Memorial Elegiac Poem

9.5 Brilliant

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Because I could not stop for Death

Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” explores themes of mortality through a carefully constructed meta...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Dickinson

9.5 Brilliant

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Auld Lang Syne

“Auld Lang Syne,” penned by Robert Burns in 1788, is a Scottish poem exploring themes of memory and friendship. Its endu...

Lyric 18TH Century Ceremonial Poem

9.4 Excellent

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Easter, 1916

W.B. Yeats’ “Easter, 1916” reflects on the events surrounding the Irish Easter Rising. The poem explores themes of loss,...

Modernist Patriotic Elegiac Poem

9.3 Excellent

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Hope is the thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” explores the enduring nature of optimism through a striking metaphor...

Inspirational Lyric 19TH Century Dickinson

9.2 Excellent

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents a sequence of fourteen rhyming couplets originally written by the 11th-century Per...

Lyric 19TH Century Philosophical Poem

9.2 Excellent

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In Flanders Fields

“In Flanders Fields” is a poem by John McCrae commemorating the First World War. Written in 1915 following the Battle of...

Patriotic Memorial Wwi Poem

9.1 Excellent

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Let America Be America Again

Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” is a 1936 poem reflecting on the nation's promise of equality. It critiq...

Lyric Patriotic Harlem Renaissance Poem

9.1 Excellent

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We Wear the Mask

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” is a poignant 1895 poem exploring the hidden pain experienced by African Ameri...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Poem

9.1 Excellent

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O Captain! My Captain!

Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” is a poignant 19th-century poem written in response to Abraham Lincoln's assassi...

19TH Century Patriotic Elegiac Poem

9.1 Excellent

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Sympathy

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Sympathy,” published in 1899, employs the powerful image of a caged bird to represent suffering...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Poem

9.0 Excellent

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Tell all the truth but tell it slant

Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” explores the idea that profound truths are best conveyed indire...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Dickinson

9.0 Excellent

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I, Too

"I, Too" is a 1926 poem by Langston Hughes asserting African American dignity and belonging, written in response to Walt...

Lyric Patriotic Harlem Renaissance Poem

8.9 Great

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I'm Nobody! Who are you?

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson written around 1861, widely anthologized for its wry rejec...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Dickinson

8.9 Great

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A Visit from St. Nicholas

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas") is an 1823 American poem attributed to Clement Clarke M...

Narrative 19TH Century Ceremonial Moore

8.5 Great

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Paul Revere's Ride

Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861) is an American narrative poem recounting the midnight warning ri...

Narrative 19TH Century Patriotic Poem

8.4 Great