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Title Author Year
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone John Keats 1819
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] Walt Whitman 1891
The Feast of Lights Emma Lazarus 1882
Days of Me Stuart Dischell 2003
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
A Bookshelf Hua Xi 2025
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Gitanjali 60 Rabindranath Tagore 1912
This Is Not Love Elsa Gidlow 1923
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Proof Tiana Clark 2021
Maine Yet Miami Richard Blanco 2020
Einstein’s Mother Tracy K. Smith 2020
Personal History Adrienne Su 2019

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