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Title Author Year
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
Against Fruition Sir John Suckling 1646
The Retreat Henry Vaughan 1650
Lullaby of an Infant Chief Sir Walter Scott 1816
The Barrier Claude McKay 1922
“Ferrum” [Excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior Ben Jonson 1640
An Unemployed Machinist John Giorno 1970
O'Connor at Andalusia Floyd Skloot 2006
The Mediterranean Allen Tate 1937
Summer Holiday Robinson Jeffers 1995
Sun Michael Palmer 1988
Still Another Day: I Pablo Neruda 2005
The Painting John Balaban 2003
Once in the 40’s William Stafford 1982
Couple Sharing a Peach Molly Peacock 2002
Homecoming Robert Lowell 1975
The Lost Pilot James Tate 1967
The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet Lynn Emanuel 1999
Older Elektra Jenny Tunedal 2026

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