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Title Author Year
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
Silhouette Janice Lobo Sapigao 2020
The Sea and the Skylark Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019
Dreamers Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
What Seems Like Joy Kaveh Akbar 2017
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016
November Helen Hunt Jackson 1891
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
The Leaving Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
An Evening Discussion Chen Chen 2026
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918

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