Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Still I Rise	Maya Angelou	1978
Tincture	Andrea Gibson	2018
My Heart Leaps Up	William Wordsworth	1807
maggie and milly and molly and may	E. E. Cummings	1956
Love After Love	Derek Walcott	2014
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	William Wordsworth	1807
O Me! O Life!	Walt Whitman	1891
Dream Variations	Langston Hughes	1994
Self-Pity	D. H. Lawrence	1929
I Am Not Yours	Sara Teasdale	1917
As I Grew Older	Langston Hughes	1926
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love	Anne Carson	2020
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot	1915
Gitanjali 1	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Let Me Begin Again	Major Jackson	2021
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best	Andrea Gibson	2021
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
Inventory	Dorothy Parker	1926

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