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Title Author Year
[little tree] E. E. Cummings 1920
To Let this Woman Love Me E. Hughes 2026
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son] William Shakespeare 1611
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Ernest Dowson 1900
Heritage Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
A Valentine Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The courage that my mother had Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Karawane Hugo Ball 1916
Zone Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
It’s all I have to bring today (26) Emily Dickinson 1890
Skunk Hour Robert Lowell 1976
Monologue for an Onion Suji Kwock Kim 2003
What Came to Me Jane Kenyon 2006
Nature Henry David Thoreau 2019
Forever Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
Recuerdo Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
Symptom Recital Dorothy Parker 1926
The Phantoms for Which Clothes Are Designed Chase Twichell 2017
Lot’s Wife Anna Akhmatova 1973

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