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Title Author Year
Sonnet Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1922
Wedding Cake Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Passer Mortuus Est Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Magdalen Walks Oscar Wilde 1881
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65) William Shakespeare 1609
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace] Henry Howard 1557
Languages Carl Sandburg 1916
Assault Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Milton [Excerpt] William Blake 1811
Te Deum Charles Reznikoff 1976
A Song of Enchantment Walter de la Mare 1913
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees Ansel Elkins 2023
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits Crisosto Apache 2022
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920

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