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Title Author Year
I heard a Fly buzz (465) Emily Dickinson 1998
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
Faces in the Street Henry Lawson 1903
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1813
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27) William Shakespeare 1904
October Helen Hunt Jackson 2015
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne 1633
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You Natalie Diaz 2019
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Pomegranate Eavan Boland 1994
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me Richard Blanco 2019
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
Even the Rain Agha Shahid Ali 2003
After Words Kelly Beard 2026
Love Comes Quietly Robert Creeley 2016
[This is my letter to the World] Emily Dickinson 2026

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