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Title Author Year
The Border: A Double Sonnet Alberto Ríos 2016
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
How Doth the Little Busy Bee Isaac Watts 1715
Measure Me, Sky! Leonora Speyer 1922
A Tragic Story William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
Gitanjali 27 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Blower of Leaves January Gill O’Neil 2014
Having It out with Melancholy Jane Kenyon 1993
Ode to Kool-Aid Marcus Jackson 2018
The Garden Andrew Marvell 1681
Before You Came Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1991
À Quoi Bon Dire Charlotte Mew 1921
A Clear Midnight Walt Whitman 1891
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
In Memory of Sigmund Freud W. H. Auden 1940
In the Desert Stephen Crane 2017
Karawane Hugo Ball 1916
Buffalo Bill ’s E. E. Cummings 1976

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