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Title Author Year
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50) William Shakespeare 1904
A Drinking Song W. B. Yeats 1916
The Supple Deer Jane Hirshfield 2011
The Truth the Dead Know Anne Sexton 1981
In the not-not-woods Malia Maxwell 2026
When Mama died, I lost my air DéLana R. A. Dameron 2025
Greater Love Wilfred Owen 1917
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind] William Shakespeare 1623
Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege Joseph Fasano 2024
Summer Haibun Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2017
Tell Me Something Good Ocean Vuong 2015
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
Invitation to the Voyage Charles Baudelaire 2006
Breaking Free Stuart Kestenbaum 2021
our happiness Eileen Myles 2014
Song to Celia Ben Jonson 1616
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026
Not to Keep Robert Frost 2018
The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe 2018

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