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Title Author Year
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
When We Look Up Denise Levertov 1966
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
Filling Station Elizabeth Bishop 1979
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
Alignment Jewel Rodgers 2025
Ghosts Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
Naïve Tim Seibles 2024
Hope Clara Ann Thompson 1908
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
The Lost Bird Carolina Coronado 1878
Insomniami Ariel Francisco 2021
I Will Sing You One-O Robert Frost 1923
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein Philip Freneau 1809
Song of Myself, 16 Walt Whitman 1891
Self-Portrait with Eraser Andrea Cohen 2018
Haiku [i am moving in] Sonia Sanchez 2018
The Ring Andrew Motion 2018

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