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Title Author Year
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder A. E. Housman 1939
Sonnet 2 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] Christina Rossetti 1881
At Pegasus Terrance Hayes 1999
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1926
Poem Langston Hughes 1926
An Earth Song Langston Hughes 1925
Cross Langston Hughes 1922
Pestilence Philip Freneau 1795
Song of Myself, 26 Walt Whitman 1891
Convalescence Amy Lowell 2018
Ghazal Tracy K. Smith 2018
December 24th Rose Styron 2018
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle] A. E. Housman 2017
Ballad of Forgotten Places Olga Orozco 2016
Complaint William Carlos Williams 1921
Suburban Michael Blumenthal 1987
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
The Apple Trees at Olema Robert Hass 2010
Blackout Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987

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