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Ecstasy Gabriela Mistral 1925
Fracture Ellen Bass 2022
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
What She Said Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Mistletoe Walter de la Mare 1922
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
To A Brown Boy Countee Cullen
A Prayer Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1918
Our Singing Strength Robert Frost 1923
Smell Is the Last Memory to Go Fatimah Asghar 2019
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144) William Shakespeare 1904
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74) William Shakespeare 1904
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018
The Past Is the Present Marianne Moore 1917
She Didn’t Even Wave Ai 2018
For Sister Gwen Brooks Sonia Sanchez 2018
Paris Willa Cather 1903
Potato Jane Kenyon 2017

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