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Title Author Year
We Have Been Friends Together Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1840
The Undying One, Canto I Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1830
Poet as Immortal Bird Ron Padgett 2001
Voiced Stops (audio only) Forrest Gander 2001
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
The Kiss Sara Teasdale 1917
I Am Not Yours Sara Teasdale 1917
Anna, Thy Charms Robert Burns 1788
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder A. E. Housman 1939
Oh Who Is That Young Sinner A. E. Housman 1937
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-14 Homer 1715
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] George Gordon Byron 1819
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
Inferno, Canto XXXIV Dante Alighieri 1877
The Descent of Alette [“A car” “awash with blood”] (audio only) Alice Notley 2007

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