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Title Author Year
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves” William Wordsworth 1804
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
Prayer Nancy Cunard 2026
The Good-Morrow John Donne 1633
Audre Lorde’s First Published Poem Christian Teresi 2026
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe 1599
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917
I see the boys of summer Dylan Thomas 1939
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
not an elegy for Mike Brown Danez Smith 2016
Let Me Begin Again Major Jackson 2021
Sunset, Venice Beach, October Kalehua Kim 2026
This Compost Walt Whitman 1856
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1982

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