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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

Doing My Bit for Pomp and Pageantry

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 300

By John Agard

This Thing Called Gardening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 305

By John Agard

Weeds

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 310

By John Agard

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

Muse

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 315

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

Aubade at the City of Change

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 320

By Aldo Amparán

Genealogy

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 325

By Aldo Amparán

Lullaby, After You Left the Immigrant Shelter

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 330

By Aldo Amparán

I Want the Confidence of

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 134

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

from Academic Graffiti

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 108

By W. H. Auden

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

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

A Summer Evening's Meditation

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 335

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 31

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Ode to Spring

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 218

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Song VI

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 335

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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