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Title Author Year
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
The Tinajera Notebook Forrest Gander 2011
Let Birds Linda Gregg 2009
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001
The Gift Sara Teasdale 1907
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
The Baite John Donne 1633
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
Tar C. K. Williams 1994
Proof Cornelius Eady 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
Whitman Ana Castillo 2021
Canada Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
This Is Not Love Elsa Gidlow 1923
They Part Dorothy Parker 1926
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013

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