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Title Author Year
Guided Meditation Victoria Kornick 2026
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
Butter Elizabeth Alexander 2017
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842
Thanks Yusef Komunyakaa 2016
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014

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