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Title Author Year
I Dare You Dorianne Laux 2023
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
The Moon David Berman 2013
October Evening Robinson Jeffers 1935
The Sea and the Skylark Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904
The World Christina Rossetti 2017
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
Lamb Richie Hofmann 2023
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
Blue-Butterfly Day Robert Frost 1923
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016

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