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Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

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By Elizabeth Alexander

Butter

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By Elizabeth Alexander

Dover Beach

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By Matthew Arnold

Isolation: To Marguerite

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By Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

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By Matthew Arnold

To Marguerite: Continued

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By Matthew Arnold

As I Walked Out One Evening

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By W. H. Auden

From Academic Graffiti

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By W. H. Auden

Funeral Blues

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By W. H. Auden

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

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By W. H. Auden

Lullaby

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By W. H. Auden

O Tell Me the Truth About Love

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By W. H. Auden

September 1, 1939

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By W. H. Auden

Song of the Master and Boatswain

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By W. H. Auden

Who’s Who

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By W. H. Auden

Fantasy

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

Nocturne

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

The Republic of Motherhood

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By Liz Berry

Contemplations

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By Anne Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book

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By Anne Bradstreet

The Flesh and the Spirit

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By Anne Bradstreet

The Tradition

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By Jericho Brown

Black Girl Magic

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By Mahogany L. Browne

If 2017 was a poem title

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By Mahogany L. Browne

Untitled in Covid 19

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By Mahogany L. Browne

Chingola Road Cemetery

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By Kayo Chingonyi

Kumukanda

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By Kayo Chingonyi

State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day

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By Maryann Corbett

I Have a Rendezvous with Life

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By Countee Cullen

To the Swimmer

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By Countee Cullen

Cities

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By H.D.

Hermes of the Ways

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By H.D.

Sheltered Garden

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By H.D.

The Shrine

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By H.D.

A Bird came down the Walk

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By Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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By Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death

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By Emily Dickinson

Before I got my eye put out

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By Emily Dickinson

Denial—is the only fact

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By Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility—

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By Emily Dickinson
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