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Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes 1927
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
Prayer Nancy Cunard 2026
Thanksgiving James Whitcomb Riley 2017
Spleen Charles Baudelaire 1982
If I should die (54) Emily Dickinson 1860
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves” William Wordsworth 1804
Besides the Autumn poets sing (131) Emily Dickinson 1890
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
To a Star Seen at Twilight John Rollin Ridge 2017
See It Through Edgar Guest 1917
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
Ode to Kool-Aid Marcus Jackson 2018
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016

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