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Title Author Year
Sci-Fi Tracy K. Smith 2011
October Helen Hunt Jackson 2015
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
Clouds Anonymous
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
The Witch Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1893
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1813
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian Ross Gay 2016
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe 1599
Even the Rain Agha Shahid Ali 2003
The Pomegranate Eavan Boland 1994
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me Richard Blanco 2019
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now Matthew Olzmann 2017
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert Natalie Diaz 2021
The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy 1900

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