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Title Author Year
Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Flying at Night Ted Kooser 1980
Muse Meena Alexander 2002
Elastic Love Contrapuntal Sarah Cooper 2023
Wind Gwendolyn Bennett 1924
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
The Haunted Palace Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Christmas Comes Again Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
Dear P. Victoria Chang 2017
Images Jaime Manrique 2016
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Sally Wen Mao 2015
Burning the Old Year Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
On My First Son Ben Jonson 1603
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air) Thomas Moore 1817

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