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Title Author Year
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
Gratitude List Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
freedom terrors dee(dee) c. ardan 2021
Wind Gwendolyn Bennett 1924
Outcast Claude McKay 1922
Gate C22 Ellen Bass 2007
Who will believe my verse in time to come (Sonnet 17) William Shakespeare 1904
The Last Word of a Bluebird Robert Frost 2018
Acrostic Lewis Carroll 1861
O Black and Unknown Bards James Weldon Johnson 1922
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind] William Shakespeare 1623
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
The Dreamer Dulcie Deamer 1920
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden Sterling A. Brown 1927
Sonnet III: “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring” Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill (Sonnet 91) William Shakespeare 1904
The Forest Reverie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
the lost baby poem Lucille Clifton 1991
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917

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