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Title Author Year
Going and Staying Thomas Hardy 1922
The Task Edward Hirsch 2018
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part] William Shakespeare 2017
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison Nâzim Hikmet 1994
Prayer Nancy Cunard 2026
Ferry Building, San Francisco Denise Low 2025
The Coming of Light Mark Strand 2002
Amores (II) E. E. Cummings 1923
My First Memory (of Librarians) Nikki Giovanni 2007
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball Christopher Merrill 2001
Gitanjali 11 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
For Annie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
In the Still, Star-Lit Night Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Li Bai 1916
Deflated Rubber Turkey Sawako Nakayasu 2018
From “Grandmother’s Garden” Meena Alexander 2020
Flowers from the Volcano Claribel Alegría 2018
The Garden Andrew Marvell 1681
The Armadillo Elizabeth Bishop 1979
The Crescent Moon Amy Lowell 2018

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