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Title Author Year
Song Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1995
The Initiate Charles Simic 1990
To the Reader: If You Asked Me Chase Twichell 1998
Home After Three Months Away Robert Lowell 1976
Yes Denise Duhamel 1999
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls E. E. Cummings 1923
Witch-Wife Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The Pressure Tory Dent 1999
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
When You Are Old W. B. Yeats 1919
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] William Shakespeare 1900
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
Purgatory Maxine Kumin 1965
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842

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