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Title Author Year
How can I then return in happy plight (Sonnet 28) William Shakespeare 1904
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage (Sonnet 26) William Shakespeare 1904
Red Cross Work Amelia Josephine Burr 2018
A Patriotic Leading Gertrude Stein 2018
The Right to Grief Carl Sandburg
Oxymoronic Love Jennifer Militello 2018
rite Anne Waldman 2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace. Patricia Smith 2018
Beginnings Mahtem Shiferraw 2018
Villanelle Michael Luis Medrano 2017
The City is Peopled H.D. 2017
Comrades Four Claude McKay 2017
Post-Factual Love Poem Paul Guest 2017
Hope Ali Liebegott 2017
Talent Layli Long Soldier 2017
Compass Joan Naviyuk Kane 2015
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
The Magpie's Shadow Yvor Winters 1922
Waiting for Rain Ellen Bass 2013
How Palestinians Keep Warm Naomi Shihab Nye 1994

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