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Title Author Year
It was not Death, for I stood up (510) Emily Dickinson 1890
syntax Maureen N. McLane 2008
Deer Dancer Joy Harjo 1990
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly Ariana Brown 2026
Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds Tu Fu 2025
Caliban Theory Malcolm Friend 2025
Suicide’s Note Langston Hughes 1926
Tamales on Christmas Christian Robinson 2022
My City James Weldon Johnson 1922
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus] William Shakespeare 2017
Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways Brenda Hillman 2016
Love James Russell Lowell 2016
Ever Meghan O’Rourke 2015
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch] Claudia Rankine 2014
Autumn Richard Garcia 2006
Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet Eavan Boland 2007
Song to Celia Ben Jonson 1616
Amores (VIII) E. E. Cummings 1923
Evening Solace Charlotte Brontë 2016
The Ocean Nathaniel Hawthorne 1825

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