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Title Author Year
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
Voyage to Cythera Charles Baudelaire 1994
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees Muriel Leung 2026
A Bookshelf Hua Xi 2025
Sea Love Charlotte Mew 1921
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
[O But My Delicate Lover] Sappho 1907
Ode to Goby Juliana Spahr 2023
Gitanjali 63 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Men Say They Know Many Things Henry David Thoreau 1943
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
When Sue Wears Red Langston Hughes 1923
To A Brown Boy Countee Cullen
Maine Yet Miami Richard Blanco 2020
Rabbit francine j. harris 2020
Einstein’s Mother Tracy K. Smith 2020
Asi Claudia Castro Luna 2019

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