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Title Author Year
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray 1751
The Ivy Green Charles Dickens 1837
The Rider Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
October Song Marilyn Chin 2015
The Guitar Federico García Lorca 2002
Winter Colony Anne Sexton 1959
Lover Ada Limón 2021
If You Knew Ellen Bass 2018
Dream Song 1 John Berryman 1959
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
Little Stones at My Window Mario Benedetti 2003
Passage to India Walt Whitman 1891
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best Andrea Gibson 2021
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006
Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Vita Nova Louise Glück 2026
Since Hanna Moved Away Judith Viorst 1981
Regret Denise Low 2025
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards Kaveh Akbar 2017
Thirteen Ways of Looking Ama Codjoe 2023

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