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Title Author Year
The Tower W. B. Yeats 1928
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1842
The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
In the Absence of Sparrows Daniel Johnson 2014
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens 1954
Mother's Rules Yalie Saweda Kamara 2016
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
May-Day Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Life Joe Brainard 2012
The Black Unicorn (audio only) Audre Lorde 1977
Returning to Fields and Gardens (I) Tao Yuanming 2024
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
The Crystal Gazer Sara Teasdale 1926
Hair Francisco Aragón 2018
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
The Last Word of a Bluebird Robert Frost 2018

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