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Title Author Year
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
Ode to My Hands Tim Seibles 2010
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
Japanese Lullaby Eugene Field 1892
A Primer of the Daily Round Howard Nemerov 1960
The Baite John Donne 1633
Four Poems for Robin Gary Snyder 1968
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
Good Night Wilhelm Müller 2003
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Old England Claude McKay 1912
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941

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