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- The Raven. by Edgar Allan Poe. Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary,
- Ozymandias. by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I met a traveler from an antique land. Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone.
- The Road Not Taken. by Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both.
- Annabel Lee. by Edgar Allan Poe. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
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