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Oceanside, CA Marie-Elizabeth Mali 2016
1905 Marilyn Nelson 2015
Swallows Leonora Speyer 1921
An Autumn Reverie Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1873
The Rose of Battle W. B. Yeats 1892
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
Autumn Evening David Lehman 2010
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Astraea Redux John Dryden 1660
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone John Keats 1819
The Triumph of Time Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
From A. Van Jordan 2004
A Christmas Carol George Wither 1622
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
The Poems I Have Not Written John Brehm 2005
Boston Aaron Smith 2005
Render, Render Thomas Lux 2004
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829

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