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Title Author Year
Jenny Kiss'd Me Leigh Hunt 1838
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
The Hug Thom Gunn 2009
Home to Roost Kay Ryan 2005
Patience Kay Ryan 2000
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
Faults Sara Teasdale 1917
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
The Ruined Maid Thomas Hardy 1901
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Walt Whitman 1891
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
[Like the very gods] Sappho 1949
Segesta Edith Wharton 1926
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
Do Not Run Farnaz Fatemi 2024
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Meetings Elizabeth Woody 2024
The Cloisters Jorge Luis Borges 1999
Earth’s Complaint Margaret Cavendish 1653

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