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Gitanjali 56 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Theft Esther Popel 1925
Ecstasy Gabriela Mistral 1925
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
Rainy Night Dorothy Parker 1926
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
What She Said Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Everything Needs Fixing Karla Cordero 2021
Sock Hop Anis Mojgani 2011
The Waiting Jane Wong 2021
Our Singing Strength Robert Frost 1923
The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall 1890
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter John Crowe Ransom 1923
Farewell Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1895
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things] Terrance Hayes 2019
Not the Pilot Walt Whitman
Amores (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144) William Shakespeare 1904

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