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Title Author Year
Motherhood, 1951 Ai 2010
Curse of the Cat Woman Edward Field 2007
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903
Summer Night, Riverside Sara Teasdale 1915
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918
From A. Van Jordan 2004
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Why Regret? Galway Kinnell 2006
You Tell Us What to Do Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1991
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Render, Render Thomas Lux 2004
When that I was and a little tiny boy William Shakespeare 1602
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood Thomas Centolella 2026
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025
Sea Love Charlotte Mew 1921
The Home of the Sacred Ofelia Zepeda 2024

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