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Title Author Year
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
Loneliness Katherine Mansfield 1923
Halloween Madison Julius Cawein 2017
Bury Me in a Free Land Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
It Was Like This: You Were Happy Jane Hirshfield 2006
Epitaph on a Tyrant W. H. Auden 1940
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
October Evalyn Callahan Shaw 2019
Poem haunted by the sound of a long e Kerry Sherin Wright 2026
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
The Tradition Jericho Brown 2015
Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
A Nation's Strength William Ralph Emerson 1847
Ghost House Robert Frost 1913
I Am! John Clare 1848
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
The Good-Morrow John Donne 1633
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps Andrea Gibson 2021

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