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Title Author Year
‘The child is father to the man.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins 2011
Not Dead Robert Graves 1918
A New Law Greg Delanty 2010
Alive Naomi Shihab Nye 2010
The Seventh (A hetedik) Attila József 1997
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
The Violet Jane Taylor 1806
Home to Roost Kay Ryan 2005
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
A Primer of the Daily Round Howard Nemerov 1960
Why Regret? Galway Kinnell 2006
Shawl Albert Goldbarth 2007
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World Sherman Alexie 2009
My House, I Say Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
In Vain Jack Kerouac 2006
Mastectomy Wanda Coleman 1993
To My Brother Miguel in Memoriam César Vallejo 1993
Late September Charles Simic 2002
June Light Richard Wilbur 1947

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