Poems

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Title	Author	Year
miss rosie	Lucille Clifton	1987
Pied Beauty	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Filling Station	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
A Grave	Marianne Moore	1981
Shadows in the Water	Thomas Traherne	1910
the mother	Gwendolyn Brooks	1945
Facing It	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988
Adolescence II	Rita Dove	1993
Passing	Carl Phillips	1992
Old English riddle	Anonymous	1000
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion	William Cowper	1816
Song of Myself, 1 [I Celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)	John Donne	1633
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'	Agha Shahid Ali	1987
The Good Gray Wolf	Martha Collins	1999
Syringa	John Ashbery	1975
Medusa	Patricia Smith	1992
Sonnet Substantially Like the Words of F Rodriguez One Position Ahead of Me on the Unemployment Line	Jack Agüeros	1991

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1987