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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Tact

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Slave's Dream

Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven

Emily Dickinson - There is another sky

Herman Melville - Shiloh

Try Japanese authors, they got the kick to it, it should be easier then any, it's haikus mostly, short and great to quote.

Matsuo Kateshi is easy!!!

Copy: http://www.classical-japanese.net/Poetry/basho.htm...

Edgar Allen Poe, you choose any of his poetry.