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Title Author Year
Starfish Eleanor Lerman 2005
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape John Ashbery 1970
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
Harlem Night Club Langston Hughes 1926
Song of the Open Road, 9 Walt Whitman 1891
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
As a Portent David Baker 2014
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
Snow Song Frank Dempster Sherman 1897
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
The Heart of a Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
Addiction Major Jackson 2025
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
May Day Sara Teasdale 1920

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