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[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
To a Locomotive in Winter Walt Whitman 1891
The Day Lady Died Frank O’Hara 1964
Mexico City Blues [113th Chorus] Jack Kerouac 1959
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
Some Melodious Plot Anthony Borruso 2025
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene I [Wherefore rejoice?] William Shakespeare 2016
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Howard Nemerov 1980
Meeting at Night Robert Browning 1845
Infant Joy William Blake 1789
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
It’s easy to invent a life (41) Emily Dickinson 1929
Furry Bear A. A. Milne 1927
Playing with Bees RK Fauth 2023
Prayer Langston Hughes 1927

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