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Title Author Year
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Sonnet 2 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
The Oxen Thomas Hardy 1915
Persuasion William Wordsworth 1822
To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
Now Close the Windows Robert Frost 1915
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
My Friends Ali Power 2017
The Tree Sparrows Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
Little Father Li-Young Lee 2001
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
Left Nikky Finney 2011
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in] John Keats 1820
Father Edgar Guest 1919
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895

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