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Title Author Year
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
Eros Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
January William Carlos Williams 2016
Birthday Richie Hofmann 2015
On the Beach at Night Alone Walt Whitman 1891
That This Susan Howe 2011
Part of Eve's Discussion Marie Howe 1988
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
In Summer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
My hero bares his nerves Dylan Thomas 2003
Still A. R. Ammons 1986
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
Dejection: An Ode Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802
Pestilence Philip Freneau 1795
Confessional Hieu Minh Nguyen 2019

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