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Title Author Year
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI) Sir Walter Scott 1805
Forever Plastics Ronald Carson 2026
Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege Joseph Fasano 2024
[Like a white stone] Anna Akhmatova 1921
Thoughts Myra Viola Wilds 1915
For My Mother May Sarton 2016
Five Directions to My House Juan Felipe Herrera 2008
Canto XIV Ezra Pound 1934
What He Thought Heather McHugh 1994
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1883
Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier 1894
Violin Nikki Wallschlaeger 2020
On Prayer Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Demiurge’s Laugh Robert Frost 1915
Waiting for Happiness Nomi Stone 2018
My Childhood Home I See Again Abraham Lincoln 1847
The Vampire Madison Julius Cawein 1896
Hay for the Horses Gary Snyder 1958
Corazón in Fall Emma Trelles 2020
Youth Langston Hughes 1925

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