Poems

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Title	Author	Year
[The cry of the cicada]	Matsuo Basho	1690
To make a prairie (1755)	Emily Dickinson	1951
maggie and milly and molly and may	E. E. Cummings	1956
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]	William Wordsworth	1807
My Heart Leaps Up	William Wordsworth	1807
There Will Come Soft Rains	Sara Teasdale	2003
Remember	Joy Harjo	1983
Trees	Joyce Kilmer	1913
Song of Myself, V	Walt Whitman	1891
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Robert Frost	1923
Song of Nature	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
Kubla Khan	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1816
Instructions on Not Giving Up	Ada Limón	2017
Loveliest of Trees	A. E. Housman	1896
The Index	Rena Priest	2020
Nothing Gold Can Stay	Robert Frost	1923
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	William Wordsworth	1807
[since feeling is first]	E. E. Cummings	1926
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires	Forrest Gander	2020
The Bonfire	Robert Frost	2018

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