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Title Author Year
Question May Swenson 1978
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
The Habit of Perfection Gerard Manley Hopkins 1916
Gitanjali 69 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
My Dead Friends Marie Howe 2022
Joy Clarissa Scott Delany 1926
Red Delicious Jerome Ellison Murphy 2022
Laughers Langston Hughes 1922
The Theologian’s Tale; The Legend Beautiful Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown Saeed Jones 2014
Moon for Our Daughters Annie Finch 2016
Fast Jorie Graham 2016
The Angel that presided o’er my birth William Blake 1908
The Sound of the Trees Robert Frost 1916
The Man with the Hoe Edwin Markham 1898
Lamia [Left to herself] John Keats 1820
The Kiss Stephen Dunn 2007
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966

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