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Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
Lover Ada Limón 2021
Duplex Jericho Brown 2019
We Lived Happily During the War Ilya Kaminsky 2019
A New National Anthem Ada Limón 2018
Leap Year Poem Mother Goose 1719
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
History Linda Hogan 2016
October Sonnet Adrian Matejka 2023
Bats Paisley Rekdal 2007
Mr. Grumpledump’s Song Shel Silverstein 2004
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me] William Shakespeare 1603
Miscarriage Gregory Fraser 2026
The Falling of the Leaves W. B. Yeats 2017
Passage to India Walt Whitman 1891
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes 1927
The Vampire Delmira Agustini 2003
To Roosevelt Rubén Darío 1903
Seal Lullaby Rudyard Kipling 1894

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