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Title Author Year
The Song of Despair Pablo Neruda 1969
The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell 1847
October Sonnet Adrian Matejka 2023
Leap Year Poem Mother Goose 1719
The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy 1900
Reading John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Aloud as a Teenager Michael Collier 2026
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs] Pablo Neruda 2016
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
The Vampire Conrad Aiken 1914
My life closed twice before its close (96) Emily Dickinson 1890
I look at the world Langston Hughes 2009
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Sea Fever John Masefield 1917
The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes 1926
Love’s Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819
The White House Claude McKay 1919
Lord Randall Anonymous 1600
When Autumn Came Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
We Lived Happily During the War Ilya Kaminsky 2019

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