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Title Author Year
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
Self-Portrait 1 Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Empty my heart of thee — (146) Emily Dickinson 1929
On Moving Jane Huffman 2023
To a Wreath of Snow Emily Brontë 1908
My Love Bruce Nugent 1926
The Feet of Judas George Marion McClellan 1922
The Lost Lagoon Emily Pauline Johnson 1918
Yesterday and To-morrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
The Haunted Oak Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Few Things Are Explained To Me Ricardo Alberto Maldonado 2019
What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet Tso-le-oh-woh 1853
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891
Songs (VIII) E. E. Cummings 1925
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904

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