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Title Author Year
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I] William Shakespeare 1623
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me Delmore Schwartz 1959
Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt] Alexander Pope 1734
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
The Woodspurge Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1856
Lullaby of the Onion Miguel Hernández 1989
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
DEAR GABRIELLE, Andrea Abi-Karam 2025
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
The American Flag Nicolás Heredia y Mota 1892
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Little Things Marion Strobel 1921
Dream On James Tate 1997
Drops Fell on the Roof Ana Castillo 2021
The Dirge Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Gitanjali 60 Rabindranath Tagore 1912
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883

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