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Title Author Year
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24) William Shakespeare 1904
Plain Advice Jeff Gundy 2018
Impressions Oscar Wilde 2018
I Want to Save This Whale Lisa Olstein 2018
After Lighght Tom Thompson 2014
Ode to My Hands Tim Seibles 2010
Adam Lay Ibounden Anonymous 1400
Antique Arthur Rimbaud 2011
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
The Anniversary John Donne 1633
Faults Sara Teasdale 1917
This Morning Charles Simic 1994
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson 1910
Northern Pike James Wright 1992
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025
Christmas on the Border, 1929 Alberto Ríos 2024

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