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The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
The Fall of Rome W. H. Auden 1940
Halloween Madison Julius Cawein 2017
the sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
October Evalyn Callahan Shaw 2019
Loneliness Katherine Mansfield 1923
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Poem haunted by the sound of a long e Kerry Sherin Wright 2026
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
The Tradition Jericho Brown 2015
Knoxville, Tennessee Nikki Giovanni 2016
Epitaph on a Tyrant W. H. Auden 1940
Merry Autumn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1900
To a Stranger Walt Whitman 1900
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
Ghost House Robert Frost 1913
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent John Milton 1655

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