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Title Author Year
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
The Mystic's Christmas John Greenleaf Whittier 1882
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
Stealing The Scream Monica Youn 2003
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
Forever Margaret Ross 2026
This Evening Let’s Adrienne Rich 2004
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904
Convalescence Amy Lowell 2018
Impression Du Matin Oscar Wilde 2018
Tending Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
Ditty Kevin Young 2016
By the Stream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1900
Untitled Rachel McKibbens 2014
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921

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