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Kennst du das Land

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 214

By Léonie Adams

Lullaby

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 215

By Léonie Adams

Many Mansions

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 216

By Léonie Adams

Thought's End

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 217

By Léonie Adams

Floral Birth '98

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 171

By Meriem Ahmed

Read by Kayssie K

Why Can't I Leave You?

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 302

By Ai

Read by Eisa Davis

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 139

By Elizabeth Alexander

Butter

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 196

By Elizabeth Alexander

Lychees

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 286

By Meena Alexander

Postcard from Kashmir

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 212

By Agha Shahid Ali

The Season of the Plains

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 213

By Agha Shahid Ali

Amá Teaches Me How to Whistle

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 250

By Moncho Ollin Alvarado

I Want the Confidence of

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 134

By Raymond Antrobus

To Sweeten Bitter

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By Raymond Antrobus

Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 49

By Raymond Antrobus

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold

Isolation: To Marguerite

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 128

By Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 162

By Matthew Arnold

To Marguerite: Continued

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 182

By Matthew Arnold

Little Prayer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 59

By Mona Arshi

The Bird

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 69

By Mona Arshi

The Lion

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 280

By Mona Arshi

Read by Tiffany Gray

The Illegitimate

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 166

By ATMOS Collective

As I Walked Out One Evening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 115

By W. H. Auden

Read by Peter Halstead

from Academic Graffiti

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 108

By W. H. Auden

Funeral Blues

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 02

By W. H. Auden

Read by Simon Callow

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 03

By W. H. Auden

Lullaby

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 103

By W. H. Auden

O Tell Me the Truth About Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 85

By W. H. Auden

September 1, 1939

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 70

By W. H. Auden

Song of the Master and Boatswain

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 16

By W. H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 11

By W. H. Auden

Read by Bobby Hirston

Who’s Who

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 32

By W. H. Auden

Island

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 214

By Desiree C. Bailey

Ma and the Snake

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 215

By Desiree C. Bailey

Malady

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 216

By Desiree C. Bailey

Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 31

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Ode to Spring

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 218

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

The Rights of Women

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 219

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Washing Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 84

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

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