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Title Author Year
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
A Way to Love God Robert Penn Warren 1985
Come out, come close. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
I Went Out to Hear Leila Chatti 2023
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
French Toast Cammy Thomas 2021
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is Patrick Rosal 2018
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017
Adolescence Claude McKay 2017
To George Sand: A Recognition Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
From “One Time” Christian Wiman 2010
To Autumn William Blake 1783
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling 1892
The Thread of Life Christina Rossetti 1881
A Litany Gregory Orr 2002
The Bistro Styx Rita Dove 1995
And You Thought You Were the Only One Mark Bibbins 2003
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025

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