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Title Author Year
Blue Vase Cynthia Zarin 2016
Summer Triptych Linda Pastan 2015
The Fire Katie Ford 2014
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
Poem Charles Bernstein 1978
Egg Aleš Šteger 2011
To Rosemounde Geoffrey Chaucer 1400
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903
American Liberty Philip Freneau 1775
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle Wallace Stevens 1918
The Phoenix Hafez 1876
From A. Van Jordan 2004
My Shoes Charles Simic 1971
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World Sherman Alexie 2009
The Old Year John Clare 1845
One Flower Jack Kerouac 2003
Coming Close Philip Levine 1991
Homecoming Robert Lowell 1975

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