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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

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

I Want the Confidence of

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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

Little Prayer

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By Mona Arshi

The Bird

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By Mona Arshi

From Academic Graffiti

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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

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

Ode to Spring

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By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

The Rights of Women

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By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Washing Day

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By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

A Poem as Long as California

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By Rick Barot

The Galleons 4

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By Rick Barot

The Names

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By Rick Barot

Virginia Woolf’s Walking Stick

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By Rick Barot

Syllogisms

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By Charles Baudelaire

Fantasy

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

Nocturne

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

Auguries of Innocence

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By William Blake

The Sick Rose

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By William Blake
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