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Title Author Year
The Thread of Life Christina Rossetti 1881
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
And You Thought You Were the Only One Mark Bibbins 2003
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Window Art Kwame Dawes 2026
Sonnet LIX: Love’s Last Gift Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869
Why Wake up Happy Quincy Scott Jones 2024
Raspberries Joseph O. Legaspi 2024
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens 1923
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
When Sue Wears Red Langston Hughes 1923
The Teacher Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
[I come weary,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24) William Shakespeare 1904
The Hill Rupert Brooke 2018
I Want to Save This Whale Lisa Olstein 2018
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
A Man Said to the Universe Stephen Crane 2016

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