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Title Author Year
This Much and More Djuna Barnes 2019
By the Waters of Babylon [V. Currents] Emma Lazarus 1887
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
The Sleep Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1838
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
Mennonites Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992
Haiku Ambulance Richard Brautigan 1989
Coronach Sir Walter Scott 1875
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
Before Disappearing into the Fog Michelle Bitting 2026
Mira at the Market Mirabai 2026
[The rage that shatters a man into children,] César Vallejo 2026
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025
As if some little Arctic flower Emily Dickinson 1890
Ghosts Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
Imagination William Rose Benét 1914

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