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Truth Victor Hugo 2025
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022
To Any Reader Robert Louis Stevenson
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
May-Day Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars Martín Espada 2018
The Watch Danusha Laméris 2016
Suddenly Sharon Olds 2013
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
1999 A. Van Jordan 2026
Anthem for America Varsha Saraiya-Shah 2025
Gitanjali 34 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Dawn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
General Review of the Sex Situation Dorothy Parker 1926
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Life is a Place Where it’s Forbidden to Live Jackie Wang 2021
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904
The Hill Rupert Brooke 2018

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