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Title Author Year
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free William Wordsworth 1807
On the Beach at Night Alone Walt Whitman 1891
it was a dream Lucille Clifton 1992
Numbness Phillip Lopate 2009
Starlight William Meredith 1997
The Shadows of Words Edgar Silex 2004
Stanzas Emily Brontë 1846
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
Where Is My Friend? Dorianne Laux 2026
In a Village in the West Bank Naomi Shihab Nye 2025
Winter Stores Charlotte Brontë 1846
A House in Taos Langston Hughes 1927
A Coast-Nightmare Christina Rossetti 1896
Change on Change Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1846
A Portrait in Greys William Carlos Williams 1917
Childhood Memories William Saphier 1920
Souvenir Edna St. Vincent Millay 1923
Today Matthew Zapruder 2019
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019

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