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Title Author Year
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
For Once, Then, Something Robert Frost 1920
Silence Thomas Hood 1827
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) William Shakespeare 1609
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] Christopher Smart 1939
The Sluggard Isaac Watts 1715
Gitanjali 2 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Lamb Richie Hofmann 2023
“Song for Almeyda,” II. Gayl Jones 2022
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
Dear P. Victoria Chang 2017
The Tree Sparrows Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
Acrostic Lewis Carroll 1861
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
Work Without Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1825
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890

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