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Title Author Year
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
To Dorothy Marvin Bell 2000
Flying at Night Ted Kooser 1980
First Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 2005
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
Come out, come close. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
The Hurricane José María Heredia 1918
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
On Anger Rage Hezekiah 2019
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
gathering words María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado 2016
The Mind in State Fady Joudah 2016
The Long Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2013
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Late Autumn Wasp James Hoch 2007
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
Opal Amy Lowell 1919
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
How to Continue Loving the World Despite Years of Impediment Marcus Wicker 2026
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025

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