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Title Author Year
This human life Maggie Smith 2026
To Her Portrait Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1920
French Toast Cammy Thomas 2021
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
Autumn Christina Rossetti 2018
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
The Widow's Lament in Springtime William Carlos Williams 1922
Sonnet 6 Rainer Maria Rilke 2004
Dead Leaves Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
The Republic of Poetry Martín Espada 2016
My Childhood Home I See Again Abraham Lincoln 1847
A Political Litany Philip Freneau 1775
For a Daughter Who Leaves Janice Mirikitani 2002
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Florida Snow P. Scott Cunningham 2025
Corazón in Fall Emma Trelles 2020
Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier 1894
Classic Water David Berman 2013
Thinking of Frost Major Jackson 2019
Once the World Was Perfect Joy Harjo 2018

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