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Kennst du das Land

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By Léonie Adams

Lullaby

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By Léonie Adams

Many Mansions

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By Léonie Adams

Thought's End

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By Léonie Adams

Good Girl

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By Kim Addonizio

Floral Birth '98

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By Meriem Ahmed

Why Can't I Leave You?

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By Ai

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

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By Elizabeth Alexander

Butter

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By Elizabeth Alexander

Lychees

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By Meena Alexander

Postcard from Kashmir

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By Agha Shahid Ali

The Season of the Plains

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By Agha Shahid Ali

Amá Teaches Me How to Whistle

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By Moncho Ollin Alvarado

I Want the Confidence of

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By Raymond Antrobus

To Sweeten Bitter

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By Raymond Antrobus

Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris

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By Raymond Antrobus

Dover Beach

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By Matthew Arnold

Isolation: To Marguerite

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By Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

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By Matthew Arnold

To Marguerite: Continued

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By Matthew Arnold

Superhero Origin Story [S. O. S.]

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By Jubi Arriola-Headley

Little Prayer

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By Mona Arshi

The Bird

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By Mona Arshi

The Lion

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By Mona Arshi

Writing Audio Description at the Ulster Museum

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By Bebe Ashley

The Illegitimate

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By ATMOS Collective

As I Walked Out One Evening

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By W. H. Auden

From Academic Graffiti

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By W. H. Auden

Funeral Blues

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By W. H. Auden

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

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By W. H. Auden

Lullaby

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By W. H. Auden

O Tell Me the Truth About Love

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By W. H. Auden

September 1, 1939

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By W. H. Auden

Song of the Master and Boatswain

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By W. H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen

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By W. H. Auden

Who’s Who

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By W. H. Auden

Island

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By Desiree C. Bailey

Ma and the Snake

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By Desiree C. Bailey

Malady

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By Desiree C. Bailey

Life

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By Anna Lætitia Barbauld
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