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Title Author Year
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
Lincoln John Gould Fletcher 1917
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
Personal History Adrienne Su 2019
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
The Negro’s “America” Frank Barbour Coffin 1897
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864) Aaron Coleman 2020
Ball’s Bluff Herman Melville 1866
A Meditation Herman Melville 1891
First South Melissa Range 2024
Civil War Rosemarie Dombrowski 2017
HOLYHEADHARRIET Ashley M. Jones 2025
Memorial Wreath Dudley Randall 2009
Home, Sweet Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
To One of the Brave Lucian B. Watkins 1903
The Armies of the Wilderness Herman Melville 1864
Apathy and Enthusiasm Herman Melville 1960
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLIX) Albery Allson Whitman 1885

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