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Title Author Year
On a Line from Valery (The Gulf War) Carolyn Kizer 1996
So It Goes Howard Altmann 2025
In Nunhead Cemetery Charlotte Mew 1921
Gitanjali 18 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Men Dorothy Parker 1926
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom Dorothy Parker 1926
Rhythm of Rain Lynn Riggs 1923
My glass shall not persuade me I am old (Sonnet 22) William Shakespeare 1904
The Gray Heron Galway Kinnell 2018
Mnemonic Li-Young Lee 1986
Moonlight Sara Teasdale 1920
Since I’m Condemned Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Fall Edward Hirsch 1986
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
Flood Miyazawa Kenji 2007
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
To Blossoms Robert Herrick 1648
Home After Three Months Away Robert Lowell 1976
Unity Pablo Neruda 2005

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