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Title Author Year
Elevator Boy Langston Hughes 1926
Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier 1894
The Coming of the Ship Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Fear Robert Frost 2018
The Vampire Madison Julius Cawein 1896
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' Agha Shahid Ali 1987
My Love Must Be As Free Henry David Thoreau 1943
Falling Patrick Phillips 2016
Going and Staying Thomas Hardy 1922
In the not-not-woods Malia Maxwell 2026
Gitanjali 97 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Love Luis G. Dato 1926
My Dead Friends Marie Howe 2022
As dogs Rachel B. Glaser 2021
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars Martín Espada 2018
The Blue Dress Saeed Jones 2017
I Want to Die While You Love Me Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI) Sir Walter Scott 1805
Weather Eve Merriam 1966
Forever Plastics Ronald Carson 2026

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