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Title Author Year
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Song of the Trees Mary Colborne-Veel 1918
SPAM's carbon footprint Craig Santos Perez 2010
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010
On Halloween Janet Little 1792
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness John Donne 1623
I Do Not Love Thee Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1829
The Wishing Tree Kathleen Jamie 2007
The Sorrow of Love W. B. Yeats 1893
A Shropshire Lad, XIII A. E. Housman 1896
One-Word Poem David R. Slavitt 2006
Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov 1996
Home After Three Months Away Robert Lowell 1976
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
Autumn Maeng Sa-song 1965

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