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Title Author Year
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
Fireworks Edith Sitwell 1918
On the Religion of Nature Philip Freneau 1815
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
Pokeberries Ruth Stone 2017
Gay Marriage Poem Jenny Johnson 2017
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed Jack Prelutsky 1990
Advice to a Prophet Richard Wilbur 1961
Parents William Meredith 1980
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
The Concrete River Luis J. Rodríguez 1990
Dear Spanish, Mateo Quispe 2024
After the Reading Tiana Clark 2023
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky Joy Priest 2023
The Dry Tortugas Molly Fisk 2019

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