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The Slave Mother

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

State-Building

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 217

By Will Harris

Paper Planes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 136

By Dagogo Hart

An Advancement of Learning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 158

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Joseph Aldous

Clearances

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 61

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Aaron Monaghan

Digging

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 27

By Seamus Heaney

Girls Bathing, Galway 1965

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 203

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marian Richardson

Glanmore Sonnets

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 98

By Seamus Heaney

Station Island VII (I had come to the edge of the water)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 270

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marty Rea

Casabianca

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 56

By Felicia Hemans

The Rock of Cader Idris

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 137

By Felicia Hemans

Delight in Disorder

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 234

By Robert Herrick

The Argument of His Book

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 239

By Robert Herrick

To Daffodils

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 237

By Robert Herrick

Barn Owls in Suffolk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 165

By Seán Hewitt

Let Them Not Say

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 236

By Jane Hirshfield

Spell To Be Said Against Hatred

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 238

By Jane Hirshfield

The Weighing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 239

By Jane Hirshfield

from Love Minus Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 213

By Wayne Holloway-Smith

Read by Andrew McMillan

Some Waynes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 135

By Wayne Holloway-Smith

Read by Andrew McMillan

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 108

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Binsey Poplars

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 98

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Windhover

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 74

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Read by Mark di Suvero

Ode 2.10

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 221

By Horace

Let America Be America Again

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Langston Hughes

Dreams

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 175

By Helen Hunt Jackson

Opportunity

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 194

By Helen Hunt Jackson

Tides

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 143

By Helen Hunt Jackson

Blind Boone’s Blessings

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By Tyehimba Jess

Blind Boone’s Vision

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 113

By Tyehimba Jess

What the Wind, Rain, and Thunder Said to Tom

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 118

By Tyehimba Jess

Fire-Flowers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By E. Pauline Johnson

Harvest Time

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 251

By E. Pauline Johnson

In the Shadows

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By E. Pauline Johnson

Low Tide at St. Andrews

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 252

By E. Pauline Johnson

Marshlands

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 137

By E. Pauline Johnson

The Lifting of the Mist

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 29

By E. Pauline Johnson

“And He Said, Fight On”

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 128

By E. Pauline Johnson

Black Woman

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 144

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Hope

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

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