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Title Author Year
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends W. B. Yeats 1899
Sonnet-To Science Edgar Allan Poe 1829
Autumn Amy Lowell 1919
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Home to Roost Kay Ryan 2005
A Ditty Sir Philip Sidney 2012
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter 1935
Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov 1996
An Old-Fashioned Song John Hollander 1993
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
At the Gym Mark Doty 2002
Tar C. K. Williams 1994
The Fountain of Blood Charles Baudelaire 1994
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Window Spencer Reece 2026
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Beatitude John Keene 2021
crown Danez Smith 2017
Yellow Moon Angela Manalang-Gloria 1927

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