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Title Author Year
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas Prageeta Sharma 2010
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
The Triumph of Time Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Seven Years Daisy Fried 2006
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
Daughter Danusha Laméris 2024
La Guerre (II) E. E. Cummings 2025
Self-Portrait 1 Tove Ditlevsen 2025
After Morlot Avenue Carlie Hoffman 2024
Slipshape Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 2024
Ipswich Eugene Field 1906
Cold War Randall Mann 2023
Gitanjali 19 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
The Dirge Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020

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