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Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
At the Very Beginning Katie Peterson 2006
Come Up From the Fields Father Walt Whitman 1891
Couple Sharing a Peach Molly Peacock 2002
Caged Bird Matthew J. Spireng 2002
Homecoming Robert Lowell 1975
Something New Under the Sun Steve Scafidi 2001
I Have Been Living Jane Mead 2000
Sentimental Education Mary Ruefle 2000
Buried Olivia E. Sears 2026
What Now Jacob Griffin Hall 2022
From “Meditations of the Old Young Man” [2. What it was to live ...] Stéphane Bouquet 2026
Da Normalization of War Lee A. Tonouchi 2021
Our Book of Delights Arielle Hebert 2026
The Artist Orpheus Donald Justice 1995
The Old Song of the Blood Humberto Ak’abal 2024
my dream about the second coming Lucille Clifton 1987
Self and Life George Eliot 1884
Ars Poetica Kenyatta Rogers 2024

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