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Title Author Year
I Was Told the Sunlight Was a Cure Hanif Abdurraqib 2022
How I Am Jason Shinder 2005
Noise Amanda Hernández 2026
Ferry Building, San Francisco Denise Low 2025
Thanksgiving James Whitcomb Riley 2017
Tear It Down Jack Gilbert 2001
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball Christopher Merrill 2001
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
The Minstrel-Boy Thomas Moore 1854
Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
In Memory of Sigmund Freud W. H. Auden 1940
Anthropocene Pastoral Catherine Pierce 2020
A Prayer in Spring Robert Frost 2018
Deflated Rubber Turkey Sawako Nakayasu 2018
A Tragic Story William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Approach of Winter William Carlos Williams 1921
Gitanjali 11 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Gift of India Sarojini Naidu 1917
How Doth the Little Busy Bee Isaac Watts 1715
Skunk Hour Robert Lowell 1976

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