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Title Author Year
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnet 2) William Shakespeare 1904
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018
Pain Scale Catherine Barnett 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
Oriflamme Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
Sorrow Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Music from Childhood John Yau 2016
Afternoons Jorge H. Aigla 2016
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
Mist Henry David Thoreau 2015
The Bee James Dickey 1967
Dear J. Kazim Ali 2013
If You Go into the Woods You Will Find It Has a Technology Heather Christle 2012
London Snow Robert Bridges 1890
Choose Life André Breton 2003
Alphabet Poem Edward Lear 1877
SPAM's carbon footprint Craig Santos Perez 2010
Low Barometer Robert Bridges 1880
The Soul’s Expression Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844

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