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Title Author Year
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
This human life Maggie Smith 2026
eschatology Eve L. Ewing 2024
[I’m happiest now when most away] Emily Brontë 1908
Letter to Noah’s Wife Maya C. Popa 2019
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
Portent William Carlos Williams 2017
Beverly Hills, Chicago Gwendolyn Brooks 2017
Abandoned Joseph Auslander 2016
our happiness Eileen Myles 2014
Only a Dad Edgar Guest 1916
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026
The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50) William Shakespeare 1904
Lament Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
The Widow's Lament in Springtime William Carlos Williams 1922
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye Albert Goldbarth 2007

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