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Title Author Year
Rock Me to Sleep Elizabeth Akers Allen 1859
Cherry blossoms Toi Derricotte 2011
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66) William Shakespeare 1609
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy 1902
Song of Myself, XI Walt Whitman 1891
Love’s Language Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1901
Stories About Love / Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas Jason Schneiderman 2017
Summer Silence E. E. Cummings 1913
To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse Burlee Vang 2016
Willow Poem William Carlos Williams 2014
A Bird Song Christina Rossetti 1873
Shadwell Stair Wilfred Owen 1931
To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane 1933
Question May Swenson 1978
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
[And isn’t everything risk?] Gregory Orr 2026
[I’m happiest now when most away] Emily Brontë 1908
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
A Single Woman’s Bedroom Yi Lei 2018

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