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Title Author Year
Shadows Langston Hughes 1923
The Lynching Claude McKay 1922
[My Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound] Thomas Hardy 2018
Turtle Soup Marilyn Chin 1994
The Waits Margaret Deland 2017
Flores Woman Tracy K. Smith 2017
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017
The Bronze Legacy Effie Lee Newsome 1922
Modern Love John Keats 2016
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Portrait of a Lady T. S. Eliot 1915
The Apple Trees at Olema Robert Hass 2010
In Summer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Of Many Worlds in this World Margaret Cavendish 1653
My hero bares his nerves Dylan Thomas 2003
The Letter Amy Lowell 1915
The Heart is the capital (138) Emily Dickinson 1929
When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation Kyle Tran Myhre 2024
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927

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