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Title Author Year
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Ode to Solitude Alexander Pope 1735
Acceptance Robert Frost 1928
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] Frank O’Hara 1964
The Moose Elizabeth Bishop 1979
If I Must Die, Let It Be a Tale Refaat Alareer 2024
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
The Song of Despair Pablo Neruda 1969
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
A Blessing James Wright 2005
The Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
I look at the world Langston Hughes 2009
Lines Written in Early Spring William Wordsworth 1798
We Lived Happily During the War Ilya Kaminsky 2019
Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes 1927
Lover Ada Limón 2021
Instructions for Having a Soul Joseph Fasano
Leap Year Poem Mother Goose 1719

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