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Title Author Year
Spring is like a perhaps hand E. E. Cummings 1923
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Under the Harvest Moon Carl Sandburg 1916
Gitanjali 36 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
How I Am Jason Shinder 2005
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Lube, Ars Poetica Lan Lesmeister 2026
You Can’t Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden Sterling A. Brown 1927
The Human Seasons John Keats 1819
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Solstice Tess Taylor 2015
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen 1919
You Begin Margaret Atwood 1978
Poem for a Suicide Matthew Zapruder 2023

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