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Title Author Year
Brokeheart: Just like that Patrick Rosal 2014
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America Ada Limón 2012
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
The Heart of a Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape John Ashbery 1970
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
May Day Sara Teasdale 1920
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
On Anger Rage Hezekiah 2019
The House of Ghosts Margaret Widdemer 2018
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
Snow Song Frank Dempster Sherman 1897
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987

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