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Title Author Year
Bei Hennef D. H. Lawrence 1913
The Rose of Battle W. B. Yeats 1892
Thoughts Walt Whitman 1867
Papyrus Ezra Pound 1916
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
Not Dead Robert Graves 1918
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur 2004
canvas and mirror Evie Shockley 2010
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
The Triumph of Time Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866
The Question Answered William Blake 1905
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
The White Fires of Venus Denis Johnson 1994
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
When that I was and a little tiny boy William Shakespeare 1602
Voyage to Cythera Charles Baudelaire 1994
Five Murders Randall Mann 2026
[A long time ago] Tao Yuanming 1918

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