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Title	Author	Year
Love’s Growth	John Donne	1633
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65)	William Shakespeare	1609
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)	William Shakespeare	1609
So Cruel Prison	Henry Howard	1557
My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness	Thomas Wyatt	1557
Earth Took of Earth	Anonymous	1000
i didn’t eat the sun	ire’ne lara silva	0026
Karaoke Lounge (audio only)	Cathy Park Hong
The Fearfulness of Hands That Have Learned Killing (audio only)	Wendell Berry
Bishop the Fish (audio only)	Randall Jarrell
The Crossing (audio only)	Louise Glück
Visitor (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz
The New Transcendence (audio only)	Ravi Shankar
Underbelly	Nicole Homer
Lunch (audio only)	Kenneth Koch
Inside The Dog (audio only)	Tina Chang
Primer for Blacks (audio only)	Gwendolyn Brooks
You Can Have It (audio only)	Philip Levine
Moon Man (audio only)	Jean Valentine