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Title Author Year
It was a hard thing to undo this knot Gerard Manley Hopkins 2013
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké Angelina Weld Grimké 1914
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (audio only) Elizabeth Bishop 1997
9773 Comanche Ave. David Trinidad 2010
Emily Dickinson to the Rescue Michael Dickman 2010
Queen-Anne's-Lace William Carlos Williams 1921
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Lovers' Infiniteness John Donne 1633
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
At Night the States Alice Notley 2006
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
The Illiterate William Meredith 1997
Third Charm from Masque of Queens Ben Jonson 1609
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
The Initiate Charles Simic 1990

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