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Title Author Year
Sonnet-To Science Edgar Allan Poe 1829
My/My/My Charles Bernstein 1975
Testy Pony Zachary Schomburg 2010
When I Heard at the Close of Day Walt Whitman 1891
The Ecstasy Phillip Lopate 2009
Home to Roost Kay Ryan 2005
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
The White Horse D. H. Lawrence 1964
Tar C. K. Williams 1994
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
The Death of Eve Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Empty my heart of thee — (146) Emily Dickinson 1929
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
Everybody’s Autobiography Tracy K. Smith 2024
To a Snowflake Francis Thompson 1897
Go Youth James Tate 1994

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