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Negro Langston Hughes 1922
The Things that Count Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1919
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Dream Song 29 John Berryman 1959
Tears, Idle Tears Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1847
The Minstrel-Boy Thomas Moore 1854
From the Desire Field Natalie Diaz 2017
Love Song William Carlos Williams 2008
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
From “Nox” [gentes] Anne Carson 2010
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Wallace Stevens 1921
[You love yourself only when in pain] Dan Sociu 2026
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
Good-Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
Prayer Nancy Cunard 2026
Give Me This Ada Limón 2020

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