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Title Author Year
Deep in the Quiet Wood James Weldon Johnson 2015
Sharks in the Rivers Ada Limón 2010
Falling James Dickey 1992
How to See Deer Philip Booth 1999
On the Circuit W. H. Auden 1965
Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds Tu Fu 2025
My Mountains Gabriela Mistral 2003
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels Paola Capó-García 2018
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour” Edgar Allan Poe 2018
On the Freedom of the Press Benjamin Franklin 2017
Song of Myself, 4 Walt Whitman 1891
Ode of Girls’ Things Sharon Olds 2015
Woods in Winter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2025
Rain Claribel Alegría 2003
When Malindy Sings Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
Before Disappearing into the Fog Michelle Bitting 2026
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly Ariana Brown 2026
Niagara José María Heredia 1827
In the Forest Oscar Wilde 1909

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