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Title Author Year
Vacation Rita Dove 1994
The Falling Star Sara Teasdale 1930
Futility Wilfred Owen 1917
From “Grandmother’s Garden” Meena Alexander 2020
Reading to My Father Jorie Graham 2016
Summer Sun Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Fame is a fickle food (1659) Emily Dickinson 1957
THE LAKE —— TO —— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
In the Still, Star-Lit Night Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
America, I Sing Back Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 2016
An Apple Gathering Christina Rossetti 1861
Spider Andrea Gibson 2026
Sun Song Langston Hughes 1927
The Heart of the Tree Henry Cuyler Bunner 1912
Short-Order Cook Jim Daniels 1985
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
The courage that my mother had Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
The Armadillo Elizabeth Bishop 1979
After great pain a formal feeling comes — (175) Emily Dickinson 1929
In the Desert Stephen Crane 2017

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