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Only a Dad Edgar Guest 1916
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art Frank O’Hara 1957
The Sandman Margaret Thomson Janvier 1912
The Mosquito Knows D. H. Lawrence 1923
Dogwood Blossoms George Marion McClellan 1922
Letter to Noah’s Wife Maya C. Popa 2019
Beverly Hills, Chicago Gwendolyn Brooks 2017
My Life Was the Size of My Life Jane Hirshfield 2015
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye Albert Goldbarth 2007
Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Maggie Smith 2018
Abandoned Joseph Auslander 2016
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll 1882
For a Daughter Who Leaves Janice Mirikitani 2002
This human life Maggie Smith 2026
[I’m happiest now when most away] Emily Brontë 1908
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
A Song for Merry Harvest Eliza Cook 2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim Walt Whitman 2017

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