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Title Author Year
corydon & alexis, redux D. A. Powell 2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus] Horace 1673
The Edge of the World [excerpt] Adonis 2008
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth] Virgil 2006
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] Charles Wright 2007
Exquisite Candidate Denise Duhamel 1997
A Song for New Year’s Eve William Cullen Bryant 1864
Toward the Winter Solstice Timothy Steele 2006
The Midnight Court [Twas my custom to stroll] Brian Merriman 2006
Spenser’s Ireland Marianne Moore 1961
The Seekers of Lice Arthur Rimbaud 2004
Words and the Diminution of All Things Charles Wright 2004
The Silence Philip Schultz 2002
Alexander Throckmorton Edgar Lee Masters 1916
Song H.D. 1921
Lullaby of the Onion Miguel Hernández 1989
On the Skeleton of a Hound James Wright 1992

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