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[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Song of Myself, 33 Walt Whitman 1891
Mexico City Blues [113th Chorus] Jack Kerouac 1959
Meeting at Night Robert Browning 1845
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
The Day Lady Died Frank O’Hara 1964
Infant Joy William Blake 1789
Playing with Bees RK Fauth 2023
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene I [Wherefore rejoice?] William Shakespeare 2016
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
It’s easy to invent a life (41) Emily Dickinson 1929
After Many Springs Langston Hughes 1926
The Old Stoic Emily Brontë 1846
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Howard Nemerov 1980
Spontaneous Me Walt Whitman 1891
The Stalin Epigram Osip Mandelstam 1989
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) William Shakespeare 1609

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