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Title Author Year
Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Jack Gilbert 2012
Summer Stars Carl Sandburg 1920
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
i didn’t eat the sun ire’ne lara silva 0026
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Purple Kwame Dawes 2019
The End of a Nation Don Mee Choi 2020
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
November Lucy Larcom 1881
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
Blue with Collapse Thomas Lux 2016
To Winter William Blake
Invitation to Love Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896

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