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Title Author Year
Patience Kay Ryan 2000
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
The Gift Sara Teasdale 1907
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
The Transparent Man Anthony Hecht 1991
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025
crown Danez Smith 2017
[There is no Life or Death,] Mina Loy 1914
The Night Before I Leave Home Elisa Gonzalez 2023
Black Earth Marianne Moore 1921
Gitanjali 91 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 1925
American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training Kortney Morrow 2020
Yesterday and To-morrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me Monica Sok 2020
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters Oscar Wilde 1886
Sleeping Beauty Nick Flynn 2019

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