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Title Author Year
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
Sonnet XLIV Charlotte Smith 2021
I Sing What You Loved Gabriela Mistral 2003
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d. Mark Twain 1885
Love is a Flame George Marion McClellan 1916
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods Walt Whitman
Riddle Jericho Brown 2019
Black Swan Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2018
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
My Friends Ali Power 2017
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017
A Woman Sleeps on an Island Marjorie Agosín 2016
Medusa Louise Bogan 1921
American Pharoah Ada Limón 2016

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