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Title Author Year
Seal Lullaby Rudyard Kipling 1894
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
Lord Randall Anonymous 1600
From “Birthday Letters” (I) Christian Campbell 2026
America Is Loving Me to Death Michael Kleber-Diggs 2020
The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell 1847
The Hero Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
Besides the Autumn poets sing (131) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes 1926
Reading John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Aloud as a Teenager Michael Collier 2026
If I should die (54) Emily Dickinson 1860
The Carrying Ada Limón 2017
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
Punch James Ciano 2026
October Song Marilyn Chin 2015
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006

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