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Title Author Year
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
The Oxen Thomas Hardy 1915
Persuasion William Wordsworth 1822
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
A Bell, Still Unrung Safiya Sinclair 2016
Untitled Rachel McKibbens 2014
Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors Richard Siken 2014
Left Nikky Finney 2011
September Elegies Randall Mann 2010
On His Deceased Wife John Milton 1658
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
Wait Until It Grows Roots Tarfia Faizullah 2025
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood Suzi F. Garcia 2021
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
Absolute Jacqueline Woodson 2020
Childhood Memories William Saphier 1920
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020

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