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Title Author Year
My Childhood Home I See Again Abraham Lincoln 1847
The Day Lady Died Frank O’Hara 1964
The City Limits A. R. Ammons 1986
[to keep knowing] Aracelis Girmay 2023
Youth Langston Hughes 1925
On Prayer Kahlil Gibran 1923
Now Robert Browning 2016
The Woman and the Flame Aimé Césaire 2011
The Vampire Madison Julius Cawein 1896
The Giaour [Unquenched, unquenchable] Lord George Gordon Byron 1813
Yesterday W. S. Merwin 1983
It Happens Like This James Tate 2003
The Splendor Falls Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Put Out My Eyes Rainer Maria Rilke 1905
In Praise of Dreams Gary Soto 2020
Song of Myself, 31 Walt Whitman 1891
Kid, this is the first rain Jeffrey Bean 2018
A Shropshire Lad, IX A. E. Housman 2018
The African Picnic Elizabeth Alexander 2017
The Sadness of Clothes Emily Fragos 2015

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