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Title Author Year
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
I Loved You Before I Was Born Li-Young Lee 2018
The Testing-Tree Stanley Kunitz 1971
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
Gitanjali 69 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Love Luis G. Dato 1926
To My Mother Edgar Allan Poe 1849
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) William Shakespeare 1609
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!] William Shakespeare 1608
The Weighing Jane Hirshfield 1994
City that Does Not Sleep Federico García Lorca 1973
Blackberry Eating Galway Kinnell 2016
Window Carl Sandburg 1916
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent John Milton 1655
i didn’t eat the sun ire’ne lara silva 0026
Facing It Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
Putting in the Seed Robert Frost 2016
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding Beth Ann Fennelly 2021

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