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Title Author Year
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
Thanks Yusef Komunyakaa 2016
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee 1986
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Butter Elizabeth Alexander 2017
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
Guided Meditation Victoria Kornick 2026
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018
Thanks W. S. Merwin 1988
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951

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