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Title Author Year
Inferno, Canto XXXIV Dante Alighieri 1877
The Lovers of the Poor Gwendolyn Brooks 1999
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
Résumé Dorothy Parker 1926
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens 1922
The Angel William Blake 1901
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee 1986
A Clear Midnight Walt Whitman 1891
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] John Keats 1818
Not to Keep Robert Frost 2018
Eating Together Li-Young Lee 1986
The Traveling Onion Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
To a Locomotive in Winter Walt Whitman 1891
A Birthday Christina Rossetti 1861
Fish Fucking Michael Blumenthal 1984
You Can’t Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
To All My Friends May Yang 2017
The Gift of India Sarojini Naidu 1917

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