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Title Author Year
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee 1986
Guided Meditation Victoria Kornick 2026
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] John Keats 1818
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
Thanksgiving James Whitcomb Riley 2017
Peaches Adrienne Su 2015
Thanks W. S. Merwin 1988
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012

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