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- Poem of The Day
the Cold War just ended a lone sun in the belly of the...
- Virgin by Kathleen Tankersley Young
Poet and Harlem Renaissance–era editor Kathleen Tankersley...
- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
Source: The Collected Poems (Faber and Faber, 1989) This...
- Sea-Fever by John Masefield
British poet John Edward Masefield was born in...
- The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential and widely...
- A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
A collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics...
- The Look by Sara Teasdale
Strephon kissed me in the spring, Sara Teasdale was born in...
- Gitanjali 35 by Rabindranath Tagore
Source: Rabindranath Tagore, "Gitanjali 35" from Gitanjali...
- I Sit and Sew by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Poet, essayist, diarist, and activist Alice Moore...
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- The Raven. by Edgar Allan Poe. Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary,
- Ozymandias. by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I met a traveler from an antique land. Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone.
- The Road Not Taken. by Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both.
- Annabel Lee. by Edgar Allan Poe. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
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