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Title Author Year
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
Notes for Canto CXX Ezra Pound 1956
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy 1915
Fire Strike Margaret Noodin 2026
1915 Robert Graves 1917
Where Is My Friend? Dorianne Laux 2026
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
A Portrait in Greys William Carlos Williams 1917
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
The American Soldier Philip Freneau 1790
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
Particulate Matter Molly Fisk 2018
An Old Story Tracy K. Smith 2018
Christmas Eve Ella Higginson 2017
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017

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