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The Ecstasy Phillip Lopate 2009
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Since Nine O’Clock C. P. Cavafy 2009
On Shakespeare John Milton 1630
Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick 1670
Out, Out– Robert Frost 1916
Flood Miyazawa Kenji 2007
No, Love Is Not Dead Robert Desnos 1991
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16 Homer 1975
The Dead Layer Arielle Hebert 2026
Anti-Elegy Sadia Hassan 2026
The Wolves Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy 1910
The Wild Swans Li Qingzhao 1918
Gitanjali 6 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
black love Evie Shockley 2023
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
8. bell hooks 2012
An Ante-Bellum Sermon Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913

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