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Lullaby of an Infant Chief Sir Walter Scott 1816
Elegy 5 Ovid 1870
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour Trumbull Stickney 1917
The Barrier Claude McKay 1922
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
“Ferrum” [Excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008
A Song for New Year’s Eve William Cullen Bryant 1864
The Mediterranean Allen Tate 1937
Working Late Louis Simpson 1988
Love Incarnate Frank Bidart 1997
Styx Dana Levin 2011
To. . . René Char 2004
The Family Photograph Vona Groarke 2004
The Painting John Balaban 2003
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Homecoming Robert Lowell 1975
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896
Now Winter Nights Enlarge Thomas Campion 1617
The Voice of Robert Desnos Robert Desnos 1991
Late Afternoon Michelle Bitting 2026

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