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XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind] William Wordsworth 1815
The Question Answered William Blake 1905
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216) Emily Dickinson 1890
Matins (audio only) Carol Frost 2003
Egon Schiele's Wife (audio only) Carol Frost 2003
Apiary IX (audio only) Carol Frost 2003
Toro Sarah Gambito 2005
The Good Provider Sarah Gambito 2009
Populating Heaven Maureen N. McLane 2008
syntax Maureen N. McLane 2008
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
Poetry Is a Destructive Force Wallace Stevens 1980
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
Eating Poetry Mark Strand 1980
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
For What Binds Us Jane Hirshfield 1988
The Bell Zygmunt Jane Hirshfield 2006
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
The Supple Deer Jane Hirshfield 2011
Embers (audio only) Henri Cole 2007

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