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Going for Water Robert Frost 1915
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50) William Shakespeare 1904
Winter Trees William Carlos Williams 1921
“I Shall Come Back” Dorothy Parker 1926
A Brook in the City Robert Frost 1923
When the Year Grows Old Edna St. Vincent Millay 2014
Here Arthur Sze 1998
Do Not Speak of the Dead Cecilia Llompart 2015
For What Binds Us Jane Hirshfield 1988
Meeting at Night Robert Browning 1845
Love Poem to Taco Bell Rebecca Bornstein 2026
Gitanjali 12 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Perfect Woman William Wordsworth 1807
When Dawn Comes to the City Claude McKay 1922
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
When the Orders Came Fatimah Asghar 2018
Patience Taught by Nature Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2015
The Weighing Jane Hirshfield 1994
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Howard Nemerov 1980
After great pain a formal feeling comes — (175) Emily Dickinson 1929

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