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Title Author Year
Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty W. B. Yeats 1899
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
The Living Beauty W. B. Yeats 1919
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
Plural Happiness David Rivard 2011
The Plain Sense of Things Wallace Stevens 2011
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
The Question Answered William Blake 1905
Falling James Dickey 1992
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001
Four Poems for Robin Gary Snyder 1968
Southern Road Sterling A. Brown 1980
Catch a Little Rhyme Eve Merriam 1966
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
[I finish The Lover and we take a walk.] Nicole Tallman 2025
“Four planets (but no moon) will be visible to the naked eye tonight.” Ashaki M. Jackson 2026
Alice Samuel Alfred Beadle 1912

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