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Title Author Year
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
After the Election Sarah Messer 2012
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
To George Sand: A Desire Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
On His Deceased Wife John Milton 1658
The Song of Hiawatha [Excerpt] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855
The Mystic's Christmas John Greenleaf Whittier 1882
The Feast of Lights Emma Lazarus 1882
Stanzas in Meditation Gertrude Stein 1994
1915 Robert Graves 1917
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
The Seasons Moralized Philip Freneau 1785
Asking for Roses Robert Frost 2018
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
ode to the puritan in me Ross Gay 2016
To Summer William Blake 2015
Dream-Land Edgar Allan Poe 1844

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