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Dead Fires Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
In Praise of Shame Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
The One God Is Mysterious Frank X. Gaspar 2004
Late September Charles Simic 2002
Words Dana Gioia 2001
Canto I Ezra Pound 1956
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees Muriel Leung 2026
She says, being forbidden: Leonora Speyer 2026
Daughter Danusha Laméris 2024
Night’s Edge / La orilla de la noche Octavio Quintanilla 2025
Dream On James Tate 1997
Leaving Childhood Behind Mosab Abu Toha 2022
Moon Tonight Gwendolyn Bennett 1926
Theft Esther Popel 1925
Gitanjali 60 Rabindranath Tagore 1912
Rainy Night Dorothy Parker 1926
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
A Farewell Langston Hughes 1926

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