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Title Author Year
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Autobiography of Eve Ansel Elkins 2015
The Ocean Nathaniel Hawthorne 1825
Gerontion T. S. Eliot 1920
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
i take my glasses off Lucille Clifton 2026
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
from Oracles for Youth Caroline Gilman 1852
Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky 1980
Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman 2013
Hummingbird Abecedarian Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight Jane Hirshfield 1997
Eulogy Kevin Young 2011
My Friend Tree Lorine Niedecker 1985
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges Sam Sax 2025
Your laughter turns the world to paradise Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Rhapsody on a Windy Night T. S. Eliot 1920

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