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Title Author Year
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Anne Sexton 1981
Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
The Lovers of the Poor Gwendolyn Brooks 1999
9. E. E. Cummings 2010
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet 1678
Never give all the heart W. B. Yeats 1904
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249) Emily Dickinson 1861
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Wallace Stevens 1921
To the Daisy William Wordsworth 1807
my father moved through dooms of love E. E. Cummings 1991
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015 Susan Briante 2010
Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
sisters Lucille Clifton 1989
Lot’s Wife Anna Akhmatova 1973
Go ahead, Lord, break our harp Jalal al-Din Rumi 2026

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