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Title Author Year
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
Boys Will Be Boys Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The House of Ghosts Margaret Widdemer 2018
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
Addiction Major Jackson 2025
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Harvest Cecily Parks 2018
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America Ada Limón 2012
Snow Song Frank Dempster Sherman 1897
Grace for a Child Robert Herrick 1648

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