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A Poem for Speculative Hipsters
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[Amiri Baraka]
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A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
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[Dylan Thomas]
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a spider and a fly
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[Don Marquis]
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A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love
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[Bruce Dawe]
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``A World Without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness''
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[Richard Wilbur]
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After Apple-Picking
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[Robert Frost]
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After Arguing against the Contention that Art Must Come from Discontent
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[William Stafford]
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American Poetry
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[Louis Simpson]
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And Death Shall Have No Dominion
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[Dylan Thomas]
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Anorexic
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[Eavan Boland]
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Anthem for Doomed Youth
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[Wilfred Owen]
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anyone lived in a pretty how town
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[e.e. cummings]
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Archaic Figure
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[Amy Clampitt]
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At a Reading
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[J. D. McClatchy]
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At the Bomb Testing Site
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[William Stafford]
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Australia 1970
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[Judith Wright]
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B |
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Babylon Revisited
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[Amiri Baraka]
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Bachelor
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[William Meredith]
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Balboa, the Entertainer
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[Amiri Baraka]
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Beach Glass
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[Amy Clampitt]
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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
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[Emily Dickinson]
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Belly Dancer
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[Diane Wakoski]
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Birches
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[Robert Frost]
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Bora Ring
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[Judith Wright]
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Boy Breaking Glass
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[Gwendolyn Brooks]
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Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art
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[John Keats]
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Bushed
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[Earl Biney]
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The Business of Love is Cruelty
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[Dean Young]
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California Hills in August
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[Dana Gioia]
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the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
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[e.e. cummings]
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The Campus on the Hill
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[W.D. Snodgrass]
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The Cathedral Is
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[John Ashbery]
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Celestial Music
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[Louise Gluck]
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The Child Bride
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[Susan Mitchell]
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Christabel
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[Coleridge]
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Church Monuments
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[George Herbert]
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Cold Cash
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[Stephen Berg]
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Coleman Valley Road
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[Gerald Stern]
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Consummate Mask of Rock
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[Bruce Nauman]
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The Cow
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[Ogden Nash]
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Daddy
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[Sylvia Plath]
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Daguerreotype Taken in Old Age
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[Margaret Atwood]
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Death
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[Roy Fuller]
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
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[Randall Jarrell]
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Debridement
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[Michael Harper]
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Dedication
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[Wole Soyinka]
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Desire
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[Stephen Dobyns]
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Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
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[Dylan Thomas]
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The Door
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[Robert Creeley]
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``The Dreadful Has Already Happened''
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[Mark Strand]
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Dulce et Decorum Est
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[Wilfred Owen]
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Dust
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[Kathleen Spivack]
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E |
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Eating Poetry
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[Mark Strand]
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The Eagle
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[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
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Eighth Air Force
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[Randall Jarrell]
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Electra on Azalea Path
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[Sylvia Plath]
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Elm
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[Sylvia Plath]
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Epigram
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[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
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Erosion
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[Linda Pastan]
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Everything That Acts is Natural
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[Denise Levertov]
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Face
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[Jean Toomer]
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The Feast of Stephen
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[Anthony Hecht]
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Final Notations
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[Adrienne Rich]
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The Flea
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[John Donne]
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For Her Villain
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[Grace Bauer]
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Enuf
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[Ntozake Shange]
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F |
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Four Poems for Robin
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[Gary Snyder]
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The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
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[Richard Hugo]
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From a Book of Prophets
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[Susan Mitchell]
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From Childhood's Hour
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[Edgar Allan Poe]
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G |
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Grandmother Grace
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[Ronald Wallace]
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Grim Town in a Steep Valley
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[Thomas Lux]
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H |
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Haiku Ambulance
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[Richard Brautigan]
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The Hermit Has a Visitor
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[Maxine Kumin]
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The Hollow Men
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[T.S. Eliot]
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The Hotel by the Sea
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[Susan Mitchell]
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I |
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I Died For BeautyBut Was Scarce
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[Emily Dickinson]
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I Heard A Fly BuzzWhen I Died
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[Emily Dickinson]
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I Think Continually Of Those Who Were Truly Great
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[Stephen Spender]
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If Snakes Were Blue
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[Robert Penn Warren]
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In Days of Wine
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[Ben Luna]
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In the Absence of Bliss
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[Maxine Kumin]
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Incident
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[Amiri Baraka]
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Infant Innocence
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[A.E. Housman]
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Insomnia I
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[Howard Nemerov]
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Interrogation
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[Sophie Cabot Black]
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Invitation to a Ghost
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[Donald Justice]
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Ishtar
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[Judith Wright]
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J |
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Jill, Afterwards
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[Philip Dacey]
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K |
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The Kid
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[Ai]
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The Knife
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[Keith Douglas]
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L |
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La Brea
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[Richard Kenney]
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Lady Lazarus
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[Sylvia Plath]
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The Life of Each Seed
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[Patricia Goedicke]
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The Llama
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[Ogden Nash]
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Last Night's Dream
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[Denise Levertov]
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
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[Alden Nowlan]
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The Lost Baby Poem
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[Lucille Clifton]
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Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
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[Richard Wilbur]
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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[T.S. Eliot]
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Lying In a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
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[James Wright]
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The Makers
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[Howard Nemerov]
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Makeshift
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[Laura Riding]
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Mapping
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[Robert Kelly]
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Mending Wall
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[Robert Frost]
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Minuet for Army Boots and Orchestra
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[Miller Williams]
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Misery and Splendor
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[Robert Hass]
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Missing Dates
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[William Empson]
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Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
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[William Stafford]
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The Moon and the Yew Tree
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[Sylvia Plath]
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The Moon Is Always Female
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[Marge Piercy]
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Mowing
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[Robert Frost]
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Mus‰e des Beaux Arts
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[W.H. Auden]
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Mutability
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[W.D. Snodgrass]
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my father moved through dooms of love
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[e.e. cummings]
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My Papa's Waltz
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[Theodore Roethke]
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The Naked and the Nude
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[Robert Graves]
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The Naughty Preposition
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[Morris Bishop]
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The Negro
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[James Emanuel]
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The Necessity
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[Alice B. Fogel]
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The New Poem
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[Charles Wright]
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next to of course god america i
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[e.e. cummings]
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90 North
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[Randall Jarrell]
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No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief
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[Gerard Manley Hopkins]
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Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments
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[William Shakespeare]
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Not The Moon
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[Margaret Atwood]
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Ode: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood
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[William Wordsworth]
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
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[John Keats]
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Ode on Melancholy
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[John Keats]
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Ode to A Dressmaker's Dummy
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[Donald Justice]
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Ode to a Nightingale
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[John Keats]
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On Motel Walls
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[David Wagoner]
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On the Death of Friends in Childhood
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[Donald Justice]
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One Art
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[Elizabeth Bishop]
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One Kiss
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[Tess Gallagher]
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Orf
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[Ted Hughes]
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Ovid in the Third Reich
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[Geoffrey Hill]
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P |
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The Pardon
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[Richard Wilbur]
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Parting
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[A.R. Ammons]
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Photos of a Salt Mine
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[P.K. Page]
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Playboy
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[Richard Wilbur]
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Poetry
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[Marianne Moore]
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Poppies
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[Mary Oliver]
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Postscript
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[Henri Coulette]
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Pour Commencer
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[Jon Stallworthy]
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Preludes
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[T.S. Eliot]
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Proust's Madeleine
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[Kenneth Rexroth]
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Psalm and Lament
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[Donald Justice]
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The Pulley
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[George Herbert]
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Punk Pantoum
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[Pamela Stewart]
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Rapture
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[Susan Mitchell]
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The Remains
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[Mark Strand]
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Repressed Theme
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[Barbara Cully]
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Riddle in the Garden
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[Robert Penn Warren]
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from Rites of Passage
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[Robert Duncan]
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Salmon
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[Jorie Graham]
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The Second Coming
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[William Butler Yeats]
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September Song
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[Geoffrey Hill]
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Sex Without Love
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[Sharon Olds]
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The Shaft
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[Charles Tomlinson]
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Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
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[William Shakespeare]
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She Walks in Beauty
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[George Gordon, Lord Byron]
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since feeling is first
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[e.e. cummings]
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Singing & Doubling Together
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[A.R. Ammons]
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Sky Burial
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[Aliki Barnstone]
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Song
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[Brigit Pegeen Kelly]
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Song for Ishtar
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[Denise Levertov]
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Song of the Fucked Duck
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[Marge Piercy]
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Spelling
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[Margaret Atwood]
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Split Tractate
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[Brenda Hillman]
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Starlight
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[Philip Levine]
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Statue
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[Tom Clark]
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The Stillness, The Dancing
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[Linda Bierds]
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The Sun Rising
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[John Donne]
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Th' Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame
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[William Shakespeare]
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That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
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[William Shakespeare]
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Theory
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[Paul Hoover]
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The Three Fates
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[Rosemary Dobson]
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To Have Without Holding
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[Marge Piercy]
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To His Coy Mistress
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[Andrew Marvell]
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To His Importunate Mistress
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[Peter DeVries]
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F |
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from To Restore a Dead Child
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[Keith Douglas]
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Topography
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[Sharon Olds]
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The Tortoise
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[Cid Corman]
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Touching Each Other's Surfaces
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[Carol Jane Bangs]
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Traveling through the Dark
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[William Stafford]
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The Turtle
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[Ogden Nash]
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The Tyger
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[William Blake]
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U |
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The Ultimate Antientropy
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[Theodore Weiss]
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V |
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The Vanishings
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[Stephen Dunn]
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Variation On the Word Sleep
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[Margaret Atwood]
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Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
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[Kenneth Koch]
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Visions
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[William Stafford]
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Vocation
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[Carol Rumens]
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W |
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The Waking
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[Theodore Roethke]
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The Waste Land
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[T.S. Eliot]
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Wave
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[Susan Mitchell]
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Welcome to Hiroshima
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[Mary Jo Salter]
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what if a much of a which of a wind
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[e.e. cummings]
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Who Is To Say
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[Michael Palmer]
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Wolves
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[Louis MacNeice]
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The Woman at the Washington Zoo
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[Randall Jarrell]
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You Fit Into Me
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[Margaret Atwood]
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