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Title Author Year
The Trial by Existence Robert Frost 1915
Haiku [for you] Sonia Sanchez 2018
Willow Poem William Carlos Williams 2014
Travelling William Wordsworth 1802
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!] William Shakespeare 1608
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
In the House with No Doors Sarah Kay 2023
Autobiography of Eve Ansel Elkins 2015
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death W. B. Yeats 1919
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time] Claudia Rankine 2004
The Bean Eaters Gwendolyn Brooks 1960
Sonnet for what ages and does not Sam Rush 2024
Re-Statement of Romance Wallace Stevens 2016
Peace Path Heid E. Erdrich 2016
It Begins With the Trees Ada Limón 2022
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
An Enigma Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884
The Return Ezra Pound 1913
On Talking Kahlil Gibran 1923

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