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Title Author Year
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Christmas Comes Again Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
Images Jaime Manrique 2016
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
First Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 2005
First Light Morgan Parker 2026
The Mosquito Knows D. H. Lawrence 1923
A Coney Island of the Mind, 8 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Pan with Us Robert Frost 1915
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Burning the Old Year Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
Starfish Eleanor Lerman 2005
The Tropics of New York Claude McKay 1920
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
The Leaving Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020

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