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Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
The Iliad, Book XVIII [Divine Armor] Homer 2023
A Dozen Cocktails Please Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 2026
[To love two people is to have it] Ulayya bint al-Mahdi 2026
Thoughts at the Grave Bianca Stone 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Rest Stop Chandler Peters-Durose 2024
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
Summer, You’re a Boneyard Gustavo Hernandez 2023
The Harp of Broken Strings John Rollin Ridge 1850
My Little Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
August Dorothy Parker 1926
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
Self-Portrait as a Body, a Sea Donika Kelly 2017
Howl Eileen Myles 2020
The Haunted Oak Paul Laurence Dunbar
Common Things Christopher Kondrich 2019
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90) William Shakespeare 1904
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909

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