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Title Author Year
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter] William Shakespeare 2016
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
Long Distance II Tony Harrison 1984
[Like a white stone] Anna Akhmatova 1921
Dirge Without Music Edna St. Vincent Millay 2016
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
Poem for a Suicide Matthew Zapruder 2023
The Minstrel-Boy Thomas Moore 1854
I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer Angel Nafis 2026
Wanting to Die Anne Sexton 1981
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Pedagogy Sam Sax 2023
Bone by Bone: A Hypochondriac Inventory Kashiana Singh 2026
Mr. Pope Allen Tate 1928
Gitanjali 95 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
The Gift of India Sarojini Naidu 1917
From “The Temple of Nature,” Canto I (The Production of Life) [III. Now rose in purple pomp the breezy dawn,] Erasmus Darwin 1791
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
The Tradition Jericho Brown 2015

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