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Title Author Year
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
The Eyes of My Regret Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Chile’s Land Gabriela Mistral 2003
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
The Fist Derek Walcott 1986
Flying at Night Ted Kooser 1980
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Time-Sensitive Franny Choi 2023
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
Puerto Rican Obituary Pedro Pietri 2015
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
Youth and Age W. B. Yeats 1970
The Onset Robert Frost 1923

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