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Title Author Year
[O were my love yon Lilac fair] Robert Burns 1793
Singularity Marie Howe 2019
Wait Galway Kinnell 2016
You Begin Margaret Atwood 1978
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps Andrea Gibson 2021
If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert Natalie Diaz 2021
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
[This is my letter to the World] Emily Dickinson 2026
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
Love Song Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
blessing the boats Lucille Clifton 2001
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
For Keeps Joy Harjo 2019
Theme for English B Langston Hughes 1994
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1813
Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen 1920
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27) William Shakespeare 1904
My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke 1942
Life Charlotte Brontë 2016

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