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Title Author Year
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
Voyage to Cythera Charles Baudelaire 1994
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
Five Murders Randall Mann 2026
Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood Thomas Centolella 2026
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
The Truth About a Lie Leonora Speyer 1922
[O But My Delicate Lover] Sappho 1907
XXXVI (The Sonnets) Ted Berrigan 2005
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
Nude Young Dancer Langston Hughes 1926
A Song on the Water Thomas Lovell Beddoes 2021
Obituary Generator Mariah Bosch 2021
Count the Almonds, Paul Celan 2020
I Tried to Write a Poem Called “Imposter Syndrome” and Failed Emilia Phillips 2020
Family Tree Pádraig Ó Tuama 2017
Song of Myself, 47 Walt Whitman 1891
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear (Sonnet 77) William Shakespeare 1904

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