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Title Author Year
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing) Marvin Bell 2009
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) Marvin Bell 2009
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
Since Nine O’Clock C. P. Cavafy 2009
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind] William Wordsworth 1815
The Violet Jane Taylor 1806
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Couture Mark Doty 1995
Blueprint Tom Sleigh 2007
Darwin’s Finches Deborah Digges 1986
Post-Modernism James Galvin 1997
Portrait in Georgia Jean Toomer 1923
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
Blue May Swenson 1994
About Face Alice Fulton 1995
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Robert Lowell 1976

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