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Title Author Year
The Weary Blues Langston Hughes 1926
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1898
The More Loving One W. H. Auden 1960
Her Kind Anne Sexton 1981
Rain César Vallejo 1918
Sacred Unleaving César Vallejo 1918
A Sonnet Jos Charles 2023
Icy Bulwarks César Vallejo 1918
Plaster César Vallejo 1918
To Leonora Amado Nervo 1920
The Star Dial Willa Cather 1907
from “A Season in Hell [Delirium I]” Arthur Rimbaud 1920
The New Remorse Oscar Wilde 1887
Lub O’ Mine Claude McKay 1912
Pleading Claude McKay 1912
The Wild Swans Li Qingzhao 1918
Jubba Claude McKay 1912
Gitanjali 41 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
[When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild,] Wallada bint al-Mustakfi 1796

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