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Title Author Year
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Gitanjali 10 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Description of Symptoms Allison Benis White 2023
When Dawn Comes to the City Claude McKay 1922
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me Monica Sok 2020
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
A Benign Self-Portrait N. Scott Momaday 2019
Breathe. As in. (shadow) Rosamond S. King 2019
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891

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