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Title Author Year
The Mosquito Knows D. H. Lawrence 1923
The Labyrinth Jorge Luis Borges 1999
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017
A Lady Amy Lowell 2017
The Narrow Way Anne Brontë 2017
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026
Silence Comes from Somewhere Else Nikola Madzirov 2026
The Cowboy James Tate 2008
The African Picnic Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Abandoned Joseph Auslander 2016
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
A Drinking Song W. B. Yeats 1916
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1826
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
Gone with the Swallows Ameen Rihani 1905
What the Silence Said Marie Howe 2021
A Meeting Edith Wharton 2019
November Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017

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