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Title Author Year
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
Petrichor, After a Burial Denise Low 2025
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
[O But My Delicate Lover] Sappho 1907
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
Reconciliation Else Lasker-Schüler 1911
My Little Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
Love in Outer Space Alison C. Rollins 2021
How Heid E. Erdrich 2018
Rain William Saphier 1920
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020
The Task of Naming Me Sharon Olds 2019

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