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Title Author Year
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour” Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Comfort of Darkness Galway Kinnell 2018
Song of Myself, 4 Walt Whitman 1891
The Year Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
To a Friend who sent me some Roses John Keats 1817
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982
Falling James Dickey 1992
The White Witch James Weldon Johnson 1922
Adonais, 49–52, [Go thou to Rome] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
The Dramatists Dorothy Parker 1926
Red Delicious Jerome Ellison Murphy 2022
Revolutionary Letter #3 Diane di Prima 1971
Never May the Fruit Be Picked Edna St. Vincent Millay 1923
Defeat Kahlil Gibran 1918
How to Dismantle a Heart Rodney Gomez 2018
Please Read Mary Ruefle 2016
A Memory Lola Ridge 1918
Life Joe Brainard 2012
Daily Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Orpheus William Shakespeare 1623

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