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Title Author Year
It was not Death, for I stood up (510) Emily Dickinson 1890
Killing Flies Michael Dickman 2011
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt] Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth Phillis Wheatley 1773
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder A. E. Housman 1939
The White Fires of Venus Denis Johnson 1994
Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson 1888
Ground Swell Mark Jarman 1997
The Concrete River Luis J. Rodríguez 1990
[We miss you] Fatimah bint Muhammad 1992
Window Art Kwame Dawes 2026
Sonnet LIX: Love’s Last Gift Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens 1923
The Eyes of My Regret Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Interim Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
Midsummer Léonie Adams 1925
What It Must Have Felt Like Ada Limón 2020
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
On a Day, In the World Brenda Hillman 2018
Pastoral William Carlos Williams 2016

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