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Title Author Year
The Eagle Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1851
Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820
Friends with No Benefits Megan Fernandes 2023
Tender Buttons [Objects] Gertrude Stein 1914
Wanting to Die Anne Sexton 1981
The Heart of the Tree Henry Cuyler Bunner 1912
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] William Carlos Williams 1962
Gitanjali 11 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017
Summer Sun Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
A Blessing James Wright 2005
We Who Are Your Closest Friends Phillip Lopate 2009
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Alone Edgar Allan Poe 1875
I Decide to Tell Ghost Cowboy My Intentions C. Russell Price 2025
Sea Fever John Masefield 1917
Nonsense Alphabet Edward Lear 1846
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
To Summer William Blake 2015

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