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First Turn to Me ... Bernadette Mayer 1968
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
It is the time of rain and snow Izumi Shikibu 1955
Elegy 5 Ovid 1870
Purgatorio, Canto X Dante Alighieri 1867
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
The Blue Terrance Terrance Hayes 2006
Portrait in Georgia Jean Toomer 1923
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Searchers D. Nurkse 2005
Medusa Frieda Hughes 2003
The Two Philip Levine 2002
The Plaid Dress Edna St. Vincent Millay 2001
Metaphors of a Magnifico Wallace Stevens 1954
La Figlia Che Piange T. S. Eliot 1917
In Memory of M. B. Anna Akhmatova 1973
My mother looks Manuel Iris 2025
Bushwick Bohemia Emanuel Xavier 1997

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