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Title Author Year
The Dandelion Vachel Lindsay 1916
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner 2009
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
The Wishing Tree Kathleen Jamie 2007
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace 1649
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025
disagreement María Auxiliadora Álvarez 2025
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Shadow River Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
When Sue Wears Red Langston Hughes 1923
Looking at the Moon After Rain Li Bai 1921
Of Things and Home b: william bearhart 2014
Rain William Saphier 1920
A Benign Self-Portrait N. Scott Momaday 2019
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018

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