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Title Author Year
Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2015
El Beso Angelina Weld Grimké 1909
The Things Donald Hall 2011
Father Edgar Guest 1919
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
The Letter Amy Lowell 1915
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16 Homer 1975
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1926
testify Eve L. Ewing 2022
The Christmas Wreath Anna de Brémont 2018
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
Testimony Joseph Fasano 2014
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
Ave Maria Frank O’Hara 1964
True Love Robert Penn Warren 1985

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