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Title Author Year
Buffalo Bill ’s E. E. Cummings 1976
To Helen Edgar Allan Poe 1831
Return to Sea Langston Hughes 1927
once a marine biologist told me octopuses have three hearts Denice Frohman 2018
The Widening Spell of the Leaves Larry Levis 1991
Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky 1980
A Valentine Edgar Allan Poe 2018
In the City Chen Chen 2017
Your laughter turns the world to paradise Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
a brief meditation on breath Yesenia Montilla 2020
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull Lord George Gordon Byron 1922
Break, Break, Break Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
Sonnet for what ages and does not Sam Rush 2024
What is Home? Mosab Abu Toha 2022
Enough Andru Defeye 2022
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 2016
The Pulley George Herbert 1633
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh 1600
Love Lies Bleeding Christina Rossetti 1904
Independence Day Ocean Vuong 2026

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