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Title Author Year
Let Me Begin Again Major Jackson 2021
Mr. Mistoffelees T. S. Eliot 2019
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Beans Mary Oliver 2004
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
To a Star Seen at Twilight John Rollin Ridge 2017
From the Desire Field Natalie Diaz 2017
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
Regret Denise Low 2025
Love Song William Carlos Williams 2008
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling 1897
Salvage Ada Limón 2022
The Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
Good-Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
From “Nox” [mutam] Anne Carson 2010
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo 2016
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne 1633

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