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Title Author Year
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
Poem for Haruko June Jordan 2017
Mutability Percy Bysshe Shelley 1816
After Love Sara Teasdale 1917
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
A Blessing for Wedding Jane Hirshfield 2011
The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens 1922
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
Goodtime Jesus James Tate 1979
The Song of the Jellicles T. S. Eliot 1939
The Miscarriage Dorothea Lasky 2017
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy 1902
Ode to Fat Ellen Bass 2020
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980

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