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The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Drunken Fisherman Robert Lowell 1976
The Transparent Man Anthony Hecht 1991
Catch a Little Rhyme Eve Merriam 1966
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
Yellow Stars and Ice Susan Stewart 1981
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
The Visitation Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
Older Elektra Jenny Tunedal 2026
When Crimea was still a place of light, Lyudmyla Khersonska 2026
Yet, the Loveliness Michelle Bitting 2024
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025
A Southern Road Helene Johnson 1926
Nostalgia Jessie Redmon Fauset 1927
Rain César Vallejo 1918
Gitanjali 34 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 93 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden John Yau 2022
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943

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