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Title Author Year
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes 1906
To Let this Woman Love Me E. Hughes 2026
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Anne Sexton 1981
The Snail William Cowper 1731
I Have to Write the Book You’ll Burn Vievee Francis 2026
Lyrics: II (17) José Garcia Villa 2019
Praise Song for the Day Elizabeth Alexander 2009
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Beans Mary Oliver 2004
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling 1897
Salvage Ada Limón 2022
Corona Paul Celan 2020
Protest Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2017
Tears, Idle Tears Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1847
Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish 1926
Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667

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