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Title Author Year
A Valentine Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45 francine j. harris 2018
Praisesong Sarah Browning 2017
Hotel Ron Padgett 2016
On Virtue Phillis Wheatley 1773
Passer Mortuus Est Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
The Wishing Tree Kathleen Jamie 2007
Age Robert Creeley 1991
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Gitanjali 10 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 4 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Description of Symptoms Allison Benis White 2023
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Blues Fantasy Langston Hughes 1926

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