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Title Author Year
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] John Keats 1818
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
A Woman Is Talking to Death Judy Grahn 2016
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
Thanks W. S. Merwin 1988
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
Nocturne José Asunción Silva 1925
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
Spellbound Emily Brontë 1837
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
Measure Me, Sky! Leonora Speyer 1922
Omens Cecilia Llompart 2016
A Single Tree Susan Stewart 2026
Hummingbird Abecedarian Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018

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