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Title Author Year
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
On His Deceased Wife John Milton 1658
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With Suzanne Rancourt 2004
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
Love’s Growth John Donne 1633
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
testify Eve L. Ewing 2022
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
From “Nox” [Autopsy is a term historians use ...] Anne Carson 2010
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90) William Shakespeare 1904
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
The Candle Indoors Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
Untitled Rachel McKibbens 2014
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
Day of the Refugios Alberto Ríos 1994
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998

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