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Title Author Year
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Tithonus Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1860
Starlight William Meredith 1997
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
In a Village in the West Bank Naomi Shihab Nye 2025
Nocturne Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century Herman Melville 2019
Sonnet to Liberty Oscar Wilde 1881
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
The Cow in Apple Time Robert Frost 2018
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017
The Inward Morning Henry David Thoreau 2016
Magdalene Marie Howe 2013
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
Peace on Earth William Carlos Williams 1917

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