Poems

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Title	Author	Year
To a Poor Old Woman	William Carlos Williams	1962
To Earthward	Robert Frost	1916
Little Lion Face	May Swenson	1987
On the Skeleton of a Hound	James Wright	1992
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Moose	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
Gacela of the Dark Death	Federico García Lorca	1973
Daughters, 1900	Marilyn Nelson	1990
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Sonnet Substantially Like the Words of F Rodriguez One Position Ahead of Me on the Unemployment Line	Jack Agüeros	1991
Now Winter Nights Enlarge	Thomas Campion	1617
My Picture Left in Scotland	Ben Jonson	1640
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)	William Shakespeare	1609
Nothing But Death	Pablo Neruda	1993
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]	Christopher Smart	1939
The Voice of Robert Desnos	Robert Desnos	1991
This Living Hand	John Keats	1818
Carrion Comfort	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Three Moves	John Logan	1989
The Storm	Theodore Roethke	1975

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1962