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Title Author Year
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
Now What Solmaz Sharif 2019
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60) William Shakespeare 2016
After the Winter Claude McKay 2015
The Past Louise Glück 2014
Incantation George Parsons Lathrop 1892
Ekphrasis: Her Expression Yiannis Doukas 2026
Passing Through Stanley Kunitz 1995
A Friendship Sophie Jewett 1910
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Wind Gwendolyn Bennett 1924
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1842
Song of Myself, 7 Walt Whitman 1891
[suppose] E. E. Cummings 1925
The Hill Wife Robert Frost 2018
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) Emily Dickinson 1890

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