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Title Author Year
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me Monica Sok 2020
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891
Songs (VI) E. E. Cummings 1925
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
Pain Scale Catherine Barnett 2018
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Martín Espada 2018
Diaspora Sonnet 25 Oliver de la Paz 2018
I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come Joseph Auslander 2016
The Wood-pile Robert Frost 2016
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
mulberry fields Lucille Clifton 1991
The Scholar-Gypsy Matthew Arnold 1853
Half-Hearted Sonnet Kim Addonizio 2012
Ghosts That Need Reminding Dana Levin 2011
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912

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