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Navakanta Barua
Palestine by Navakanta Barua
(5.0 by 5 user)
543
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
(4.7 by 3 user)
531
3
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
(5.0 by 2 user)
253
2
William Butler Yeats
The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
(5.0 by 1 user)
293
2
Charles Baudelaire
The Fountain by Charles Baudelaire
(5.0 by 1 user)
280
2
Diane Wakoski
The Photos by Diane Wakoski
(5.0 by 2 user)
422
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(4.0 by 1 user)
314
1
Sappho
Charaxos and Larichos by Sappho
(4.5 by 4 user)
164
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Maya Angelou
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
(5.0 by 1 user)
303
1
Langston Hughes
Freedom by Langston Hughes
(4.0 by 2 user)
398
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Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Indian Names by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
(4.0 by 1 user)
124
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Sarah Helen Whitman
To - by Sarah Helen Whitman
(5.0 by 1 user)
269
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
(5.0 by 1 user)
109
2
Russell Edson
Metals Metals by Russell Edson
(5.0 by 1 user)
369
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Alice Friman
The Peach by Alice Friman
(3.3 by 6 user)
82
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Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
(5.0 by 1 user)
170
1
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From Maud: O that 'twere possible by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(5.0 by 1 user)
148
1
John Milton
Sonnet 10: Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son by John Milton
(4.0 by 1 user)
298
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Jack Agüeros
Sonnet: The History of Puerto Rico by Jack Agüeros
(5.0 by 1 user)
285
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Sonia Sanchez
For Tupac Amaru Shakur by Sonia Sanchez
(5.0 by 2 user)
233
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Abraham Lincoln
To Rosa by Abraham Lincoln
(5.0 by 1 user)
124
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Bob Kaufman
Jail Poems by Bob Kaufman
(4.0 by 1 user)
121
1
Kahlil Gibran
On Love by Kahlil Gibran
(5.0 by 1 user)
267
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Andrew Marvell
The Garden by Andrew Marvell
(4.0 by 1 user)
262
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W. H. Auden
Twelve Songs: IX by W. H. Auden
(4.5 by 2 user)
207
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Kamau Brathwaite
Bread by Kamau Brathwaite
(5.0 by 1 user)
256
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Lorine Niedecker
Darwin by Lorine Niedecker
304
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Matthew Arnold
Apollo Musagetes by Matthew Arnold
(5.0 by 1 user)
104
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William Blake
from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Argument by William Blake
(4.0 by 1 user)
103
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William Cowper
Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion by William Cowper
(5.0 by 1 user)
103
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Emily Dickinson
I have never seen "Volcanoes" — (175) by Emily Dickinson
(4.5 by 2 user)
197
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Edwin Markham
Preparedness by Edwin Markham
290
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Carl Rakosi
Shore Line by Carl Rakosi
261
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Tomas Tranströmer
Streets in Shanghai by Tomas Tranströmer
(5.0 by 1 user)
201
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Adonis
Desert by Adonis
(3.5 by 2 user)
147
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Margaret Danner
Through the Varied Patterned Lace by Margaret Danner
(4.7 by 3 user)
96
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Anne Winters
An Immigrant Woman by Anne Winters
(3.0 by 1 user)
193
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Stephen Spender
Auden's Funeral by Stephen Spender
(4.0 by 1 user)
190
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Langston Hughes
If-ing by Langston Hughes
(3.0 by 1 user)
189
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nothing New by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
230
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Navakanta Barua
The Belt Of The Spinning Wheel by Navakanta Barua
(4.0 by 1 user)
178
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Adrienne Rich
Yom Kippur 1984 by Adrienne Rich
(2.7 by 3 user)
77
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William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
(4.5 by 2 user)
126
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Osip Mandelstam
Black Earth by Osip Mandelstam
(3.3 by 3 user)
74
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Meleager
Lost Desire by Meleager
(4.5 by 2 user)
121
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Langston Hughes
Flatted Fifths   by Langston Hughes
(5.0 by 1 user)
169
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John Ashbery
The Short Answer by John Ashbery
(4.5 by 2 user)
116
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Mark Strand
The Prediction by Mark Strand
(2.0 by 2 user)
116
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Sappho
One Girl by Sappho
(4.0 by 1 user)
164
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 134: So now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
(4.5 by 2 user)
112
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Richard Rolle
Ego Dormio: All perishes and passes by Richard Rolle
(5.0 by 1 user)
158
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Charlotte Mew
The Fête by Charlotte Mew
(4.5 by 2 user)
107
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Georgia Douglas Johnson
Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson
206
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John Fuller
Lullaby by John Fuller
206
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James Weldon Johnson
A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson
205
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James K. Baxter
Wild Bees by James K. Baxter
202
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David Ferry
Martial 1.101 by David Ferry
201
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Robert Burns
"How can I keep my maidenhead" by Robert Burns
(5.0 by 1 user)
149
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Lucille Clifton
here rests by Lucille Clifton
197
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William Shakespeare
Speech: Bottom's Dream by William Shakespeare
(5.0 by 1 user)
147
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W. H. Auden
Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
(5.0 by 2 user)
95
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Gwendolyn Brooks
The Life of Lincoln West by Gwendolyn Brooks
(5.0 by 1 user)
145
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José Montoya
Th’ Dog Dreamers by José Montoya
(4.5 by 2 user)
93
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Dorothea Grossman
I have to tell you by Dorothea Grossman
(3.0 by 2 user)
90
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Petrarch
“If no love is, O God, what fele I so?” by Petrarch
(4.0 by 1 user)
139
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Sir Philip Sidney
Eleventh Song by Sir Philip Sidney
188
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Donald (Grady) Davidson
Teach Me by Donald (Grady) Davidson
188
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Erinna by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(4.5 by 2 user)
87
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Donald Justice
Pantoum of the Great Depression by Donald Justice
(5.0 by 2 user)
87
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Richard Brautigan
A Boat by Richard Brautigan
187
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John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book  9 (1674 version) by John Milton
(4.0 by 1 user)
134
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Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
184
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
To the Young Wife by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
184
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
183
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Rupert Brooke
Jealousy by Rupert Brooke
182
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Triumph of Time by Algernon Charles Swinburne
(5.0 by 1 user)
132
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Elinor Wylie
Cold Blooded Creatures by Elinor Wylie
(4.5 by 2 user)
80
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William Butler Yeats
The Wild Old Wicked Man by William Butler Yeats
(4.5 by 2 user)
80
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Adonis
The Solitary Land by Adonis
(5.0 by 1 user)
129
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Ivor Gurney
After-Glow by Ivor Gurney
(4.0 by 1 user)
129
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Samuel Menashe
Tempus fugit by Samuel Menashe
179
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James Weldon Johnson
Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson
178
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W. D. Snodgrass
Heart’s Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
(5.0 by 1 user)
128
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Robert Browning
Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
(5.0 by 1 user)
127
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Mechthild of Magdeburg
God's Absence by Mechthild of Magdeburg
(5.0 by 2 user)
76
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Ted Berrigan
The Sonnets: L by Ted Berrigan
175
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Alexander Pope
Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope
(5.0 by 2 user)
74
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John Donne
Satire III by John Donne
(4.0 by 1 user)
124
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Roald Dahl
The Tummy Beast by Roald Dahl
173
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Frank Lima
Summer    (a love poem) by Frank Lima
(4.0 by 1 user)
122
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James Schuyler
Hymn to Life by James Schuyler
(4.0 by 1 user)
122
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Charles Reznikoff
Negroes by Charles Reznikoff
(3.5 by 2 user)
70
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Peter Davison
Peaches by Peter Davison
(5.0 by 1 user)
119
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George Moses Horton
Lincoln Is Dead by George Moses Horton
(4.0 by 2 user)
68
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William Shakespeare
Speech: “Is this a dagger which I see before me” by William Shakespeare
(5.0 by 1 user)
117
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Ezra Pound
Ladies by Ezra Pound
167
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Samuel Menashe
Voyage by Samuel Menashe
167
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Diane Wakoski
Belly Dancer by Diane Wakoski
(5.0 by 2 user)
67
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Richard Howard
Wildflowers by Richard Howard
(4.0 by 1 user)
115
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Edgar Albert Guest
Only a Dad by Edgar Albert Guest
164
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