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Title Author Year
Elegy Before Death Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
The African Picnic Elizabeth Alexander 2017
A Man Said to the Universe Stephen Crane 2016
The Going Thomas Hardy 1914
The Dying Man and the Vulture Kahlil Gibran 2026
Photoshopping My Sister’s Mugshot Andrea Gibson 2018
Gitanjali 36 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
[I’m happiest now when most away] Emily Brontë 1908
There was earth inside them Paul Celan 2020
Dogwood Blossoms George Marion McClellan 1922
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
Rain Don Paterson 2009
The Garden Andrew Marvell 1681
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind] William Shakespeare 1623
The Colored Soldiers Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Hill Wife Robert Frost 2018
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
our happiness Eileen Myles 2014
The Sandman Margaret Thomson Janvier 1912
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980

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