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Title Author Year
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
In Summer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Love (III) George Herbert 1633
I dwell in Possibility (30) Emily Dickinson 1929
It Was Like This: You Were Happy Jane Hirshfield 2006
Faces in the Street Henry Lawson 1903
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
Mr. Grumpledump’s Song Shel Silverstein 2004
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798 William Wordsworth 1798
To Helen Edgar Allan Poe 1831
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
The Tradition Jericho Brown 2015
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
Sunflowers Jenny George 2022
The Hero Siegfried Sassoon 2018
She dwelt among the untrodden ways William Wordsworth 1800
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Ada Limón 2024
On Houses Kahlil Gibran 1923

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