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Title Author Year
The Theologian’s Tale; The Legend Beautiful Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
Sounds of the Winter Walt Whitman 2015
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Fist Derek Walcott 1986
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
Question May Swenson 1978
Opal Amy Lowell 1919
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
An Evening Discussion Chen Chen 2026
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900

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