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Title Author Year
The Paper Nautilus Marianne Moore 1923
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding Beth Ann Fennelly 2021
[An ancient pond!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Wartime Christmas Joyce Kilmer 2017
Mother Earth: Her Whales Gary Snyder 2017
Yesterday W. S. Merwin 1983
Put Out My Eyes Rainer Maria Rilke 1905
My Love Must Be As Free Henry David Thoreau 1943
Song of Myself, 31 Walt Whitman 1891
Post Impressions (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
A Shropshire Lad, IX A. E. Housman 2018
Summer Haibun Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2017
The Castaway William Cowper 1799
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity John Milton 1645
Weather Eve Merriam 1966
Infant Joy William Blake 1789
The Teacher Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
The Gift Li-Young Lee 1986
The Vampire Madison Julius Cawein 1896

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