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Submerged Lola Ridge 1918
On Retirement Philip Freneau 1786
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau 1790
The Indian Burying Ground Philip Freneau 1795
Fool’s Gold Ted Mathys 2020
The Contrast Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857
The Modern Woman to Her Lover Margaret Widdemer 1915
A New Spinning Song Margaret Widdemer 1915
Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Woman of Charm Alice Duer Miller 1915
Girls on the Town, 1946 Rita Dove 2020
Vest Jane Hirshfield 2020
Ask Me Why I Love You Walter Everette Hawkins 1920
The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly Danielle DeTiberus 2020
A Guide To Usage: Mine Monica Youn 2018
The Visit Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Insomnia Etiquette Rita Dove 2012
Black Mythology Jonathan Teklit 2019
Fractured Hali Sofala-Jones 2019
From “Clarel” [The Hostel] Herman Melville 1876

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