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London William Blake 1794
How to Triumph Like a Girl Ada Limón 2018
Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) John Donne 1633
Dear March—Come in—(1320) Emily Dickinson 1890
This Is a Photograph of Me Margaret Atwood 1998
To —— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Sea Is History Derek Walcott 2007
Goodtime Jesus James Tate 1979
The Conditional Ada Limón 2013
The Listeners Walter de la Mare 1912
blessing the boats Lucille Clifton 2001
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
To a Stranger Walt Whitman 1900
The Layers Stanley Kunitz 1978
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)] Adrienne Rich 2016
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter] William Shakespeare 2016
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1813

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