Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Those Winter Sundays	Robert Hayden	1966
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
my father moved through dooms of love	E. E. Cummings	1991
Shoulders	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
A Boy and His Dad	Edgar Guest	1921
The Gift	Li-Young Lee	1986
My Papa’s Waltz	Theodore Roethke	1942
Father’s Song	Gregory Orr	2002
Father	Edgar Guest	1919
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With	Suzanne Rancourt	2004
My Father	Francisco X. Alarcón	2017
To Her Father with Some Verses	Anne Bradstreet	1678
My Father’s Hats	Mark Irwin	2004
Afternoons	Jorge H. Aigla	2016
Forgiveness	Christopher Soto	2018
The Ring	Andrew Motion	2018
Working Late	Louis Simpson	1988
A Taste of Blue	Cynthia Manick	2016
Looking at My Father	Wendy Xu	2017
Sara in Her Father’s Arms	George Oppen	2008

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1966