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Title Author Year
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
I am the People, the Mob Carl Sandburg 1916
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
First Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 2005
i didn’t eat the sun ire’ne lara silva 0026
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
October Evening Robinson Jeffers 1935
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Blue with Collapse Thomas Lux 2016
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Picture-books in Winter Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Ballad Sonia Sanchez 2007
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever Wanda Coleman 2001

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