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Title Author Year
Thursday Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Testy Pony Zachary Schomburg 2010
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
The Heart of the Woman W. B. Yeats 1899
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
[Each morning before dawn,] Gary Young 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
Empty my heart of thee — (146) Emily Dickinson 1929
Ghosts Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
Old England Claude McKay 1912
Tenebris Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Against Despair: The Kid Goat Nickole Brown 2018
Deathscape Lullaby Cynthia Cruz 2022
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
Essay on Thunder Sumita Chakraborty 2020
This Body Renée Watson 2019
A Dedication Lucian B. Watkins 1903
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020

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