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Title Author Year
Verses upon the Burning of our House Anne Bradstreet 1666
My life closed twice before its close (96) Emily Dickinson 1890
From “Birthday Letters” (I) Christian Campbell 2026
Lord Randall Anonymous 1600
In a Time of Peace Ilya Kaminsky 2019
America Is Loving Me to Death Michael Kleber-Diggs 2020
October Song Marilyn Chin 2015
Reading John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Aloud as a Teenager Michael Collier 2026
Prayer for Words N. Scott Momaday 2019
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
A Pact Ezra Pound 1913
The Hero Siegfried Sassoon 2018
If I should die (54) Emily Dickinson 1860
The Carrying Ada Limón 2017
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best Andrea Gibson 2021
Wild Grapes Robert Frost 1924
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
Vita Nova Louise Glück 2026
Dust of Snow Robert Frost 1920

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