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Title Author Year
Poem [Your breath was shed] Dylan Thomas 1946
Orpheus William Shakespeare 1623
Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds Tu Fu 2025
Beauty is not caused (57) Emily Dickinson 1929
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
The Fruits of Death Ameen Rihani 1905
Autumn Alice Cary 1876
Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown Saeed Jones 2014
It was not Death, for I stood up (510) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Sun Has Long Been Set William Wordsworth 1807
syntax Maureen N. McLane 2008
Autumn Richard Garcia 2006
Southern Road Sterling A. Brown 1980
Black Stone Lying On A White Stone César Vallejo 1971
Burn Out Amy M. Alvarez 2026
Caliban Theory Malcolm Friend 2025
Lullaby for the Grieving Ashley M. Jones 2024
Suicide’s Note Langston Hughes 1926
Tamales on Christmas Christian Robinson 2022
My City James Weldon Johnson 1922

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