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Title Author Year
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free William Wordsworth 1807
September Elegies Randall Mann 2010
Text Messages Jordan Davis 2010
Christabel [excerpt] Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
All She Wrote Harryette Mullen 1997
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927
Untitled for a Reason Tara Betts 2022
Beeches David St. John 2021
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 1925
Aspen Tree Paul Celan 2020
To One of the Brave Lucian B. Watkins 1903
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Matthew Olzmann 2016
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
The Thinker William Carlos Williams 2015
Left Nikky Finney 2011

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