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Title Author Year
Meeting and Passing Robert Frost 2013
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
The Niagara River Kay Ryan 2005
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
History Carol Ann Duffy 2003
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) William Shakespeare 1609
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Jane Hirshfield 2021
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
Ode to My Hearing Aids Camisha L. Jones 2018
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999

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