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Title Author Year
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65) William Shakespeare 1609
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
Samurai Song Robert Pinsky 2011
The Passing of the Year Robert W. Service 1912
Memorial Day for the War Dead Yehuda Amichai 1977
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Goodness Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
A Song of Enchantment Walter de la Mare 1913
Petrichor, After a Burial Denise Low 2025
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
Beatitude John Keene 2021
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
The Corn Husker Emily Pauline Johnson 1917

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