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Floral Birth '98

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By Meriem Ahmed

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

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By Elizabeth Alexander

Butter

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By Elizabeth Alexander

I Want the Confidence of

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By Raymond Antrobus

To Sweeten Bitter

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By Raymond Antrobus

Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris

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By Raymond Antrobus

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

Little Prayer

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By Mona Arshi

The Bird

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By Mona Arshi

The Illegitimate

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By ATMOS Collective

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

The Unknown Citizen

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By W. H. Auden

Who’s Who

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By W. H. Auden

Life

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By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Washing Day

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By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Fantasy

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

Nocturne

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman

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By Joshua Bennett

The Republic of Motherhood

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By Liz Berry

Auguries of Innocence

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By William Blake

The Sick Rose

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By William Blake

Imaginary Exile

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By Richard Blanco

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

Bullet Points

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By Jericho Brown

Crossing

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By Jericho Brown

Duplex (A poem is a gesture toward home)

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By Jericho Brown

Stake

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By Jericho Brown

The Tradition

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By Jericho Brown
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