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Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
Folk Song Diane Seuss 2023
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
Christmas Carol Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi Nathan McClain 2017
Question May Swenson 1978
Notes from the Other Side Jane Kenyon 1993
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' Agha Shahid Ali 1987
Wine of Summer Lord Alfred Douglas 2025
Sonnet III: “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring” Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Moon for Our Daughters Annie Finch 2016
Ditty Kevin Young 2016
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
A Birthday Christina Rossetti 1861
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
History Carol Ann Duffy 2003
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
Elevator Boy Langston Hughes 1926
The Charm of 5:30 David Berman 2013
Dear New Blood Mark Turcotte 2020

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