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Title Author Year
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
The Wild Swans at Coole W. B. Yeats 1917
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
The First Night Billy Collins 2008
Japanese Lullaby Eugene Field 1892
Rock and Hawk Robinson Jeffers 1995
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Yellow Beak Stephen Dobyns 2005
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
“Four planets (but no moon) will be visible to the naked eye tonight.” Ashaki M. Jackson 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
Going to the Picnic Julius C. Wright 1906
The Wild Swans Li Qingzhao 1918
Gitanjali 73 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Booker T. And W.E.B. Dudley Randall 2009
8. bell hooks 2012
[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.] Dimitri Reyes 2022
Song for Equal Suffrage Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
Mediterranean Blue Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (Sonnet 46) William Shakespeare 1904

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