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Danny Boy Frederick Edward Weatherly 1910
Elegy for my husband Toi Derricotte 2012
From “One Time” Christian Wiman 2010
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
All the Whiskey in Heaven Charles Bernstein 2010
Insomnia Alicia Ostriker 2009
The Sharks Denise Levertov 1957
A Primer of the Daily Round Howard Nemerov 1960
Sex Michael Ryan 2004
Iris David St. John 1991
Yellow Stars and Ice Susan Stewart 1981
Heroic Simile Robert Hass 1978
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror Agha Shahid Ali 1991
[In my eyes he matches the gods] Sappho 2007
Older Elektra Jenny Tunedal 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
The Earth-Child in the Grass Katherine Mansfield 1923
A Southern Road Helene Johnson 1926
One Year ago—jots what? (296) Emily Dickinson 1945
Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimké 1927

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