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Title Author Year
The Human Seasons John Keats 1819
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
You Begin Margaret Atwood 1978
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
To Helen Edgar Allan Poe 1831
Assault Diannely Antigua 2026
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Ada Limón 2024
The Tradition Jericho Brown 2015
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
The Hero Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Lube, Ars Poetica Lan Lesmeister 2026
Faces in the Street Henry Lawson 1903
Mr. Grumpledump’s Song Shel Silverstein 2004
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party Chen Chen 2018
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
In Summer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913

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