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A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
The Indian’s Awakening Zitkála-Šá 1916
Behind Stowe Elizabeth Bishop 1927
Grandfather A. Van Jordan 2022
Hard Daddy Langston Hughes 1922
Observation Dorothy Parker 1926
Song of Myself, 16 Walt Whitman 1891
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147) William Shakespeare 1904
My glass shall not persuade me I am old (Sonnet 22) William Shakespeare 1904
The Hill Rupert Brooke 2018
Dead Winifred M. Letts 2018
The Anxious Dead John McCrae 2018
A Dream Pang Robert Frost 2018
Israfel Edgar Allan Poe 2018
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle] A. E. Housman 2017
Irony Layli Long Soldier 2016
Our House Sophie Cabot Black 2016
The Peddler of Flowers Amy Lowell 2016
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016

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