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Title Author Year
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
Answer July Emily Dickinson 1862
A Death Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The Sufi Ameen Rihani 1921
Voices of the Air Katherine Mansfield 1923
Why I Write Poetry Leah Kindler 2022
Caprice Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1920
After Many Springs Langston Hughes 1926
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
Sonnet III: “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring” Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
Ball’s Bluff Herman Melville 1866
A Spring Morning John Clare 1835
Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not (Sonnet 149) William Shakespeare 1904
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnet 2) William Shakespeare 1904
Starlings Maggie Smith 2018
A Single Woman’s Bedroom Yi Lei 2018
Pintura Negra Lucian Mattison 2018

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