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Title Author Year
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath Natasha Trethewey 2016
Native Memory Ansel Elkins 2016
To Hope Charlotte Smith 2016
Sonnet Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1922
Epithalamion Rickey Laurentiis 2015
Patsy Cline Jennifer Chang 2015
The Rose of Battle W. B. Yeats 1892
Papyrus Ezra Pound 1916
The Mower Against Gardens Andrew Marvell 1668
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata Natasha Trethewey 2012
The House Richard Wilbur 2010
Motherhood, 1951 Ai 2010
All the Whiskey in Heaven Charles Bernstein 2010
The Yoke Frank Bidart 1997
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Summer Night, Riverside Sara Teasdale 1915
American Liberty Philip Freneau 1775
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927

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