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Complaint William Carlos Williams 1921
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons Christopher Kennedy 2011
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
Starlight William Meredith 1997
The Baite John Donne 1633
Ars Poetica (cocoons) Dana Levin 2005
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email Emily Jungmin Yoon 2026
The Yellow Corn Charles G. Eastman 1848
Sent & scented with 10 emoticons Tan Lin 2024
Gitanjali 57 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
A Mona Lisa Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
The Aim Was Song Robert Frost 1921
He Had His Dream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Lion Tina Chang 2022
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
Keep A-Pluggin' Away Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913

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