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Title Author Year
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
Untitled Rachel McKibbens 2014
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
Waiting for Your Call Aria Aber 2021
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138) William Shakespeare 2016
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email Emily Jungmin Yoon 2026
Spring Night Sara Teasdale 1915
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
Comment Dorothy Parker 1926
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Text Messages Jordan Davis 2010
[Farewell love and all thy laws forever] Thomas Wyatt 1557
1915 Robert Graves 1917
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927
Golden Anniversary Wisława Szymborska 2016
If You Should Go Countee Cullen 1922
Hymn Edgar Allan Poe 2018

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