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Title Author Year
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic Edward Hirsch 2003
A Muse Reginald Shepherd 1995
The Violet Jane Taylor 1806
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story Richard Harris Barham 1840
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] Lord George Gordon Byron 1819
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold 1852
Karma Edwin Arlington Robinson 1925
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
Meaningful Love John Ashbery 2005
Duende Tracy K. Smith 2004
Breakfast Minnie Bruce Pratt 2003
Once in the 40’s William Stafford 1982
Astigmatism Amy Lowell 1914
The Lost Pilot James Tate 1967
[In my eyes he matches the gods] Sappho 2007
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956

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