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Ecstasy Gabriela Mistral 1925
Fracture Ellen Bass 2022
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
What She Said Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Winter Moon Langston Hughes 1923
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
A Prayer Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1918
Our Singing Strength Robert Frost 1923
Smell Is the Last Memory to Go Fatimah Asghar 2019
The Virus Jericho Brown 2019
Circle Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74) William Shakespeare 1904
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018
The Past Is the Present Marianne Moore 1917
Potato Jane Kenyon 2017
The Swan F. S. Flint 2017
Sorrow Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny Cynthia Manick 2017

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