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Audre Lorde

Father Son and Holy Ghost by Audre Lorde

(5.0 by 1 user)

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Whatever Is by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

(5.0 by 1 user)

Navakanta Barua

Palestine by Navakanta Barua

(4.8 by 16 user)

Langston Hughes

Freedom by Langston Hughes

(4.0 by 2 user)

Kahlil Gibran

On Love by Kahlil Gibran

(5.0 by 1 user)

Brodsky Joseph

On Ukrainian Independence by Brodsky Joseph

(4.5 by 10 user)

Kamau Brathwaite

Bread by Kamau Brathwaite

(2.5 by 2 user)

Louis MacNeice

Entirely by Louis MacNeice

(4.7 by 3 user)

Ella Higginson

Dawn by Ella Higginson

(4.5 by 2 user)

William Butler Yeats

The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats

(5.0 by 1 user)

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare

(4.6 by 5 user)

Linda Pastan

Faith by Linda Pastan

(4.0 by 1 user)

Richard Wilbur

Junk by Richard Wilbur

Russell Edson

Metals Metals by Russell Edson

(5.0 by 3 user)

Maya Angelou

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

(5.0 by 1 user)

David Ignatow

Information by David Ignatow

Richard Brautigan

A Boat by Richard Brautigan

(4.0 by 2 user)

Langston Hughes

If-ing by Langston Hughes

(3.0 by 1 user)

Thom Gunn

Moly by Thom Gunn

(2.3 by 3 user)

Deena Metzger

Cows by Deena Metzger

(4.0 by 1 user)

Roald Dahl

The Dentist and the Crocodile by Roald Dahl

(1.9 by 7 user)

Jack Gilbert

Rain by Jack Gilbert

Mary Ann Hoberman

Brother by Mary Ann Hoberman

(2.5 by 2 user)

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Indian Names by Lydia Huntley Sigourney

(4.0 by 1 user)

Anna Akhmatova

Willow by Anna Akhmatova

(5.0 by 2 user)

William Blake

from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Argument by William Blake

(4.5 by 2 user)

Diane Wakoski

The Photos by Diane Wakoski

(5.0 by 2 user)

Philip Larkin

Days by Philip Larkin

Bob Kaufman

Jail Poems by Bob Kaufman

(4.0 by 1 user)

Gail Mazur

Ice by Gail Mazur

(4.0 by 1 user)

Adonis

Desert by Adonis

(3.5 by 2 user)

Edward Thomas

Lob by Edward Thomas

D. H. Lawrence

Piano by D. H. Lawrence

Kahlil Gibran

Defeat by Kahlil Gibran

(4.0 by 3 user)

Roald Dahl

The Tummy Beast by Roald Dahl

(4.8 by 4 user)

Lilian Moore

Mine by Lilian Moore

James Weldon Johnson

Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson

Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

(4.4 by 5 user)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

(5.0 by 2 user)

William Shakespeare

Speech: “All the world’s a stage” by William Shakespeare

(5.0 by 1 user)

Jane Yolen

Earth Day by Jane Yolen

John Fuller

Lullaby by John Fuller

T. E. Hulme

Autumn by T. E. Hulme

Osip Mandelstam

Black Earth (chernozem) by Osip Mandelstam

(3.3 by 6 user)

Charles Baudelaire

The Fountain by Charles Baudelaire

(4.5 by 2 user)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(4.0 by 1 user)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

(4.5 by 2 user)

Edward Thomas

Roads by Edward Thomas

Lorine Niedecker

Darwin by Lorine Niedecker

Allen Ginsberg

Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg

(5.0 by 2 user)

Vinda Karandikar

The Wheel by Vinda Karandikar

W. S. Merwin

Vixen by W. S. Merwin

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

From Maud: O that 'twere possible by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

(5.0 by 1 user)

Langston Hughes

Snail by Langston Hughes

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(4.0 by 1 user)

Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

O by Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

(5.0 by 2 user)

Francis Ponge

Snails by Francis Ponge

(5.0 by 1 user)

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Kahlil Gibran

On Marriage by Kahlil Gibran

James K. Baxter

Wild Bees by James K. Baxter

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley

(5.0 by 1 user)

Mary Lamb

Envy by Mary Lamb

Anne Bradstreet

The Four Ages of Man by Anne Bradstreet

(4.0 by 1 user)

William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare

(4.8 by 4 user)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Jenny by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

(5.0 by 1 user)

Sonia Sanchez

For Tupac Amaru Shakur by Sonia Sanchez

(4.5 by 4 user)

Sylvia Plath

Tulips by Sylvia Plath

Henry Timrod

Ode by Henry Timrod

Matthew Arnold

Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold

(5.0 by 1 user)

Linda Pastan

Egg by Linda Pastan

Kamau Brathwaite

Bermudas by Kamau Brathwaite

Langston Hughes

Hope by Langston Hughes

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Homes by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Edwin Markham

A Lyric of the Dawn by Edwin Markham

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

(5.0 by 1 user)

Carolyn Kizer

Bitch by Carolyn Kizer

Sarah Josepha Hale

Mary's Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale

(4.0 by 1 user)

Margaret Walker

Lineage by Margaret Walker

Paul Celan

Psalm by Paul Celan

Amy Clampitt

Athena by Amy Clampitt

Mark Strand

The Idea by Mark Strand

(5.0 by 1 user)

D. H. Lawrence

People by D. H. Lawrence

Edgar Allan Poe

Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe

(5.0 by 1 user)

John Milton

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by John Milton

Czeslaw Milosz

You Who Wronged by Czeslaw Milosz

W. S. Merwin

Fox Sleep by W. S. Merwin

(4.0 by 1 user)

John Clare

Summer by John Clare

Stephen Spender

My Parents by Stephen Spender

William Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth

(5.0 by 1 user)

W. H. Auden

Twelve Songs: IX by W. H. Auden

(4.5 by 2 user)

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Triumph of Time by Algernon Charles Swinburne

(5.0 by 2 user)

Margaret Atwood

Pig Song by Margaret Atwood

Tomas Tranströmer

Streets in Shanghai by Tomas Tranströmer

(5.0 by 1 user)

William Wordsworth

from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time by William Wordsworth

(5.0 by 1 user)

Jack Agüeros

Sonnet: The History of Puerto Rico by Jack Agüeros

(5.0 by 1 user)

James Wright

Youth by James Wright

Andrew Marvell

The Garden by Andrew Marvell

(4.0 by 1 user)

William Shakespeare

Speech: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” by William Shakespeare

(5.0 by 1 user)

Robert Browning

Cleon by Robert Browning

(5.0 by 1 user)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Lines by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper