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Title Author Year
What the Angels Left Marie Howe 1988
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
Derrick Poem (The Lost World) Terrance Hayes 1999
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
The Prose Poem Campbell McGrath 2003
Interstate Highway James Applewhite 2002
Heroic Simile Robert Hass 1978
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Mnemosyne Trumbull Stickney 1902
At Baia H.D. 1982
Sentimental Education Mary Ruefle 2000
At Deep Midnight Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
[Ask the lightning] Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya 1991
Lupines in a Yard in San Antonio, Texas Michael Kleber-Diggs 2026
Vanishing Gbenga Adesina 2025
Anorexic Girl Claire Millikin 2021
The Story as I Understand It Leonora Speyer 1926
Love In These Days Mae Cowdery 1928

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