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Title Author Year
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur 2004
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
Before the Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2010
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
Going There Jack Gilbert 2001
The Passing of the Year Robert W. Service 1912
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
Love for This Book Pablo Neruda 1966
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025
Ocean Robinson Jeffers 1928
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
Long Trip Langston Hughes 1926
Moon Over Gaza Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag Aurielle Marie 2021

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