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Palestine by Navakanta Barua
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Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
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The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
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Freedom by Langston Hughes
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Dawn by Ella Higginson
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On Love by Kahlil Gibran
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Bread by Kamau Brathwaite
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Cows by Deena Metzger
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Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
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Metals Metals by Russell Edson
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If-ing by Langston Hughes
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Ice by Gail Mazur
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Entirely by Louis MacNeice
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The Photos by Diane Wakoski
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Faith by Linda Pastan
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A Boat by Richard Brautigan
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Indian Names by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
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from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Argument by William Blake
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Moly by Thom Gunn
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Roads by Edward Thomas
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Desert by Adonis
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Information by David Ignatow
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The Fountain by Charles Baudelaire
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The Dentist and the Crocodile by Roald Dahl
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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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O by Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
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Days by Philip Larkin
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Brother by Mary Ann Hoberman
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Jail Poems by Bob Kaufman
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Rain by Jack Gilbert
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Junk by Richard Wilbur
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Darwin by Lorine Niedecker
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Black Earth (chernozem) by Osip Mandelstam
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Ode by Henry Timrod
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Lullaby by John Fuller
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From Maud: O that 'twere possible by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Snail by Langston Hughes
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Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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On Ukrainian Independence by Brodsky Joseph
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Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson
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Autumn by T. E. Hulme
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Summer by Ronald Johnson
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Charaxos and Larichos by Sappho
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Winter by Marie Ponsot
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Willow by Anna Akhmatova
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Earth Day by Jane Yolen
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Bitch by Carolyn Kizer
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Sonnet 10: Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son by John Milton
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To - by Sarah Helen Whitman
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Voyage by Samuel Menashe
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Bermudas by Kamau Brathwaite
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Dirge by Kenneth Fearing
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Your World by Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Fox Sleep by W. S. Merwin
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Wild Bees by James K. Baxter
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Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
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Egg by Linda Pastan
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Sonnet: The History of Puerto Rico by Jack Agüeros
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The Garden by Andrew Marvell
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Father Son and Holy Ghost by Audre Lorde
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Lines by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Athena by Amy Clampitt
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Ambition by Kahlil Gibran
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A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson
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The Tummy Beast by Roald Dahl
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A Lyric of the Dawn by Edwin Markham
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Shore Line by Carl Rakosi
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For Tupac Amaru Shakur by Sonia Sanchez
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Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Peach by Alice Friman
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Pig Song by Margaret Atwood
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Passage by Barbara Guest
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Vixen by W. S. Merwin
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Hearing by W. S. Merwin
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Mary's Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale
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Lob by Edward Thomas
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Peaches by Peter Davison
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Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
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Summer by John Clare
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Ladies by Ezra Pound
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Mine by Lilian Moore
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A Vision by Adonis
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The Wheel by Vinda Karandikar
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Twelve Songs: IX by W. H. Auden
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Funeral Music by Geoffrey Hill
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Paradise Lost: Book 9 (1674 version) by John Milton
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here rests by Lucille Clifton
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Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
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Remember by Langston Hughes
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By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 28: “During the Second World War” by Charles Reznikoff
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Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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Only a Dad by Edgar Albert Guest
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Preparedness by Edwin Markham
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Envy by Mary Lamb
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The Triumph of Time by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Snails by Francis Ponge
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Autumn by Alice Cary
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The Idea by Mark Strand
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