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Title Author Year
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)] Adrienne Rich 2016
Facing It Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
Mary's Lamb Sarah Josepha Hale 1830
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] William Carlos Williams 1962
The Pomegranate Eavan Boland 1994
Chicago Carl Sandburg 1914
The Fall of Rome W. H. Auden 1940
Two Loves Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
You Begin Margaret Atwood 1978
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself] Walt Whitman 1891
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1820
Even the Rain Agha Shahid Ali 2003
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
anyone lived in a pretty how town E. E. Cummings 1976
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
Knoxville, Tennessee Nikki Giovanni 2016
Salt and Sand Kathryn Kysar 2026
Goblin Market Christina Rossetti 1862
Things We Carry on the Sea Wang Ping 2018

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