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Title Author Year
Moonlight Sara Teasdale 1920
Autumn Amy Lowell 1919
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
On Halloween Janet Little 1792
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Iva's Pantoum Marilyn Hacker 1969
At the Gym Mark Doty 2002
The Fountain of Blood Charles Baudelaire 1994
People and a Heron Robinson Jeffers 1925
The Black Outside Joy Priest 2024
Go Youth James Tate 1994
black love Evie Shockley 2023
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
Blues Fantasy Langston Hughes 1926
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein Philip Freneau 1809
Heritage Emissary Threa Almontaser 2020
From “Nox” [Herodotos tells us ...] Anne Carson 2010

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