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| ONE The Senses |
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1 WHERE EXPERIENCE STARTS: The Image |
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3 | (15) |
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3 | (9) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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Archibald MacLeish, Eleven |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (2) |
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Anonymous, Brief Autumnal |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (3) |
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Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro; Alba ("As cool as the pale wet leaves...") |
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12 | (1) |
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Anthony Hecht, The End of the Weekend |
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12 | (2) |
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Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (2) |
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Brewster Ghiselin, Rattler, Alert |
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15 | (1) |
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Sappho, Leaving Crete, Come Visit Again |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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2 WHAT'S IT LIKE? Simile, Metaphor, and Other Figures |
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18 | (28) |
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18 | (12) |
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Robinson Jeffers, The Purse-Seine |
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19 | (4) |
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Robert Frost, The Silken Tent |
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23 | (1) |
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Emily Dickinson, My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (2) |
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Margaret Atwood, Habitation |
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26 | (1) |
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William Butler Yeats, No Second Troy |
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27 | (1) |
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Robert Frost, A Patch of Old Snow |
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28 | (1) |
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Al Young, Up Vernon's Alley |
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29 | (1) |
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Helen Chasin, City Pigeons |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (3) |
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Walter de la Mare, All But Blind |
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33 | (1) |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (2) |
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Alexander Pope, Intended for Sir Isaac Newton |
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36 | (1) |
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Michael Donaghy, Local 32B |
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36 | (1) |
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PERSONIFICATION, MYTHOLOGY |
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37 | (4) |
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Karl Shapiro, A Cut Flower |
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38 | (2) |
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William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan |
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40 | (1) |
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Walter Savage Landor, Dirce |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (4) |
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Alan Shapiro, Against Poets |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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3 SYMBOLISM: The Broken Coin |
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46 | (21) |
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46 | (1) |
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Mary Jo Salter, A Poetics of Sex |
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47 | (1) |
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47 | (9) |
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51 | (1) |
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Jenn Habel, Another Poem About the Heart |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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William Blake, The Sick Rose |
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54 | (1) |
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Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night |
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54 | (1) |
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Saint John of the Cross, The Dark Night |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (3) |
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Rainer Maria Rilke, The Merry-Go Round |
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56 | (1) |
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William Carlos Williams, Nantucket |
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57 | (1) |
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Frank O'Hara, Why IAm Not a Painter |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (3) |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt, My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness |
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60 | (1) |
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Kingsley Amis, A Note on Wyatt |
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60 | (1) |
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Billy Collins, The Death of Allegory |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (4) |
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John Crowe Ransom, Good Ships |
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63 | (2) |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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4 DOUBLE VISION: Antipoetry, Paradox, and Irony |
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67 | (24) |
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67 | (5) |
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William Shakespeare, Winter |
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68 | (1) |
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Francis P. Osgood, Winter Fairyland in Vermont |
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69 | (1) |
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Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (4) |
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Robert Graves, The Face in the Mirror |
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73 | (2) |
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Alexander Pope, From An Essay on Man |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (3) |
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Wilfred Owen, The Parable of the Old Man and the Young |
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78 | (1) |
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UNDERSTATEMENT-THE WITHHELD IMAGE |
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79 | (4) |
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Simonides, On the Spartan Dead at Thermopylae |
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80 | (1) |
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X.J. Kennedy, Loose Woman |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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84 | (4) |
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Rod Taylor, Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa Warrior |
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85 | (1) |
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Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream |
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86 | (2) |
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88 | (3) |
| TWO The Emotions |
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5 THE COLOR OF THOUGHT: Emotions in Poetry |
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91 | (24) |
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91 | (7) |
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William Butler Yeats, The Spur |
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94 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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Heather McHugh, Earthmoving Malediction |
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94 | (1) |
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Ammianus, Epitaph of Nearchos |
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95 | (1) |
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Michael McFee, Time Enough |
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95 | (1) |
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W.H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles |
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96 | (2) |
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98 | (9) |
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Anonymous, The Unquiet Grave |
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99 | (2) |
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Julia Moore, Little Libbie |
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101 | (1) |
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John Crowe Ransom, Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter |
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101 | (1) |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne, Etude Realiste (I) |
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102 | (1) |
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James Wright, A Song for the Middle of the Night |
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103 | (2) |
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May Swenson, Cat & the Weather |
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105 | (1) |
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William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark |
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105 | (1) |
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Richard Wilbur, The Pardon |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (3) |
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Kenneth Fearing, Yes, the Agency Can Handle That |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (5) |
| THREE The Words |
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6 MACHINE FOR MAGIC: The Fresh Usual Words |
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115 | (30) |
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115 | (10) |
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Kenneth Patchen, Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, Live |
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118 | (3) |
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Robert Frost, Dust of Snow; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep |
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121 | (3) |
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Emily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (12) |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break |
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126 | (1) |
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A.E. Housman, Along the Field as We Came By |
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127 | (1) |
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William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death |
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128 | (2) |
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130 | (2) |
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Hilaire Belloc, On His Books |
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132 | (1) |
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William Stafford, Godiva County, Montana |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (3) |
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Roger Mitchell, The Word for Everything |
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136 | (1) |
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Emily Grosholz, Remembering theArdeche |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (5) |
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Randall Jarrell, The Knight, Death, and the Devil |
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139 | (3) |
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142 | (3) |
| FOUR The Sounds |
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7 GOLD IN THE ORE: Sound as Meaning |
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145 | (22) |
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Kay Ryan, Crustacean Island |
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145 | (2) |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (9) |
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Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night |
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150 | (1) |
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Robert Frost, Once by the Pacific |
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151 | (4) |
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E.E. Cummings, Chansons Innocentes, I |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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CONSONANTS AND ALLITERATION |
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157 | (8) |
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163 | (2) |
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John Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (2) |
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8 WORKING WITH GOLD: Rhyme and Music |
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167 | (32) |
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167 | (7) |
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John Updike, Player Piano |
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170 | (3) |
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Anne Stevenson, Making Poetry |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (7) |
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Etheridge Knight, A Poem for Myself |
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175 | (1) |
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Ezra Pound, Alba ("When the nightingale...") |
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176 | (5) |
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181 | (3) |
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Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth; Arms and the Boy |
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182 | (1) |
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Thomas McGrath, Remembering the Children of Auschwitz |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (8) |
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William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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187 | (2) |
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Anonymous, Sumer Is Icumen In |
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189 | (1) |
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Ezra Pound, Ancient Music |
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190 | (1) |
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Anonymous, The Streets of Laredo |
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190 | (1) |
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Charles Causley, Lord Lovelace |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (3) |
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Timothy Murphy, Twice Cursed; Poet's Prayer |
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194 | (1) |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Dark Hills |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (4) |
| FIVE The Rhythms |
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9 THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: The Play of Rhythms |
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199 | (31) |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (2) |
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Robert Graves, Counting the Beats |
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202 | (1) |
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Walt Whitman, From Leaves of Grass |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (3) |
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206 | (2) |
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208 | (2) |
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210 | (6) |
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William Shakespeare, Sonnet 66 |
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210 | (6) |
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216 | (3) |
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William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (4) |
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Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz |
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221 | (2) |
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223 | (5) |
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William Browne, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke |
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226 | (2) |
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Katherine McAlpine, That Ghastly Night in Dover |
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228 | (1) |
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228 | (2) |
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10 DIFFERENT DRUMMERS: Alternative Forms of Meter |
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230 | (1) |
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OTHER SYLLABLE-STRESS RHYTHMS |
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230 | (5) |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib |
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232 | (2) |
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Timothy Murphy, Harvest of Sorrows |
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234 | (1) |
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235 | (7) |
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Anonymous, I Have Labored Sore |
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236 | (1) |
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236 | (2) |
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Anonymous, How Many Miles to Babylon? |
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238 | (1) |
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E.E. Cummings, if everything happens that can't be done |
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239 | (2) |
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W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening |
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241 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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Timothy Steele, Sapphics Against Anger |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (3) |
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James Tate, Miss Cho Composes in the Cafeteria |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (3) |
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250 | (2) |
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11 REMOVING THE NET: "Free Verse," Concrete Poetry, Prose Poems |
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252 | (1) |
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SOME BACKGROUND ON FREE VERSE |
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252 | (5) |
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253 | (1) |
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William Carlos Williams, Dedication for a Plot of Ground |
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254 | (3) |
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257 | (3) |
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Stephen Crane, A Man Said to the Universe |
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257 | (1) |
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Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage |
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258 | (1) |
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258 | (1) |
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Suzanne Lummis, Morning After the 6.1 |
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259 | (1) |
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Rachel Loden, The Killer Instinct |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (3) |
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William Carlos Williams, The Descent |
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260 | (3) |
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CONCRETE POETRY AND SHAPED POETRY |
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263 | (3) |
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Emmett Williams, Like Attracts Like |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (1) |
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266 | (1) |
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Robert Hass, A Story About the Body |
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266 | (1) |
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Marie Howe, Part of Eve's Discussion |
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266 | (1) |
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Jay Meek, Trains in Winter |
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267 | (1) |
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267 | (2) |
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William Carlos Williams, Iris |
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267 | (2) |
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269 | (4) |
| SIX The Mind |
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12 THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT: Sentences and Structure |
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273 | (96) |
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273 | (3) |
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274 | (1) |
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Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (1) |
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Jacques Prevert, The Message |
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276 | (1) |
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277 | (2) |
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Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing |
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277 | (1) |
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learing to Love America |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (4) |
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E.E. Cummings, Me up at does |
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280 | (1) |
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Peter Viereck, To Helen of Troy (N.Y.) |
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281 | (1) |
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Robert Frost, Beyond Words |
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282 | (1) |
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Alice Fulton, What I Like |
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282 | (1) |
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John Clare, Remember Dear Mary |
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282 | (1) |
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283 | (2) |
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Robert Graves, The Persian Version |
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283 | (1) |
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Edward Field, Curse of the Cat Woman |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (3) |
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E.E. Cummings, wherelings whenlings |
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286 | (2) |
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288 | (2) |
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290 | (1) |
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U.A. Fanthorpe, Not My Best Side |
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W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts |
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Jorie Graham, San Sepolcro |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt |
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Lisel Mueller, Paul Delvaux: The Village of the Mermaids |
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13 GOLDEN NUMBERS: On Nature and Form |
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291 | (5) |
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William Butler Yeats, The Statues |
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296 | (5) |
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John Donne, The Anniversary |
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301 | (2) |
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303 | (8) |
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Howard Nemerov, "Good-bye," Said the River, "I'm Going Downstream" |
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304 | (1) |
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X.J. Kennedy, On a Given Book |
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304 | (1) |
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Bruce Bennett, On Being Immortalized in Bronze |
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304 | (1) |
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Amareh, I'll Hide Within My Poems (trans. Dick Davis) |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (1) |
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George Szirtes, Like a Black Bird |
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305 | (1) |
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William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal |
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306 | (1) |
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Dick Davis, On the Iranian Diaspora |
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307 | (1) |
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Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen |
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308 | (1) |
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Catherine Tufariello, This Child |
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309 | (2) |
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311 | (10) |
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George Meredith, Lucifer in Starlight |
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312 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 |
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312 | (1) |
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Thomas Carper, Why Did The |
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313 | (1) |
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Gwendolyn Brooks, The Rites for Cousin Vit |
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313 | (1) |
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A.E. Stallings, Sine Qua Non |
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314 | (1) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty |
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314 | (1) |
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François Villon, Ballade to His Mistress |
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315 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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Lady Izumi Shikibu, Lying Here Alone |
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317 | (1) |
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Adelaide Crapsey, Cinquain: A Warning |
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317 | (1) |
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Basho, Evening darkens. Hunched; Lightning in the clouds! |
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318 | (1) |
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Richard Wilbur, Sleepless at Crown Point |
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318 | (1) |
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R.S. Gwynn, Black Helicopters |
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318 | (1) |
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Anonymous, Sir Isaac Newton |
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319 | (1) |
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E. William Seaman, Higgledy-piggledy |
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320 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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Anonymous, There Was a Young Lady of Tottenham |
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320 | (1) |
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321 | (2) |
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A.E. Housman, With Rue My Heart Is Laden |
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321 | (2) |
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Thomas Hardy, I Look into My Glass |
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323 | (1) |
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323 | (2) |
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14 A HEAD ON ITS SHOULDERS: From Realism to Surrealism |
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325 | (1) |
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325 | (8) |
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Miller Williams, A Poem for Emily |
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325 | (3) |
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John Berryman, He Resigns |
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328 | (1) |
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William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper |
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329 | (1) |
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Will Allen Dromgoole, Building the Bridge |
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330 | (3) |
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333 | (9) |
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334 | (3) |
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Lisel Mueller, Palindrome |
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337 | (1) |
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Stevie Smith, Our Bog Is Dood |
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337 | (3) |
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Federico Garcia Lorca, Sleepwalker's Ballad |
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340 | (2) |
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342 | (1) |
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342 | (2) |
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Li Po, Drinking Alone by Moonlight (trans. Arthur Waley) |
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Drinking Alone with the Moon (trans. Vikram Seth) |
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343 | (1) |
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344 | (2) |
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Anonymous, I Never Plucked-a Bumblebee |
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345 | (1) |
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346 | (1) |
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15 ADAM'S CURSE: Inspiration and Effort |
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347 | (15) |
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Robert W. Service, Inspiration |
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347 | (1) |
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Dylan Thomas, In My Craft or Sullen Art |
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348 | (8) |
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356 | (6) |
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362 | (3) |
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A.E. Housman, I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded |
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363 | (1) |
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Willian Butler Yeats, The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner |
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364 | (1) |
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Walter de la Mare, The Stone; Slim Cunning Hands |
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365 | (1) |
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365 | (4) |
| ANTHOLOGY |
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369 | (1) |
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369 | (2) |
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371 | (1) |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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371 | (1) |
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
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372 | (1) |
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One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand |
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373 | (1) |
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With How Sad Steps, 0 Moon |
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373 | (1) |
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My Sweetest Lesbia, Let Us Live and Love |
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It Fell on a Summer's Day |
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Idiot, Farewell Earth's Bliss |
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A Valediction: Of Weeping |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
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To My Dear and Loving Husband |
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An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage |
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A Description of the Morning |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways |
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The World Is Too Much With Us |
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Composed upon Westminster Bridge |
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From The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam |
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
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Went Up a Year This Evening |
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I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died |
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I Started Early-Took My Dog |
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death |
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Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant |
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In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" |
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To an Athlete Dying Young |
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Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now |
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For Once, Then, Something |
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The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man |
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The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter |
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450 | (2) |
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The Love Song of Y. Alfred Prufrock |
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453 | (4) |
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I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear |
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anyone lived in a pretty how town |
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My Grandmother's Love Letters |
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461 | (1) |
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Love, 20 cents the First Quarter Mile |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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464 | (1) |
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465 | (1) |
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466 | (2) |
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The Sunlight on the Garden |
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469 | (1) |
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Cobb Would Have Caught It |
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472 | (1) |
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Effort at Speech between Two People |
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483 | (2) |
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485 | (1) |
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Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry |
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486 | (1) |
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486 | (1) |
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487 | (1) |
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487 | (1) |
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489 | (1) |
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490 | (2) |
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492 | (1) |
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493 | (1) |
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Variations on a Text by Vallejo |
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494 | (1) |
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495 | (1) |
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496 | (1) |
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498 | (1) |
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499 | (1) |
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A Supermarket in California |
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501 | (1) |
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501 | (1) |
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For a Man Dancing by Himself in a Tavern |
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502 | (1) |
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503 | (1) |
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For the Anniversary of My Death |
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504 | (1) |
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504 | (1) |
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Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio |
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505 | (1) |
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505 | (1) |
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505 | (2) |
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From Twenty-one Love Poems (VI, XVI, XVIII) |
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507 | (1) |
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508 | (1) |
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What Kind of Times Are These |
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508 | (1) |
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Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen |
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509 | (1) |
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509 | (1) |
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510 | (1) |
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511 | (1) |
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512 | (1) |
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516 | (1) |
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517 | (1) |
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519 | (1) |
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519 | (1) |
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520 | (1) |
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At the Smithville Methodist Church |
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520 | (2) |
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522 | (1) |
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522 | (1) |
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525 | (1) |
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525 | (2) |
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527 | (1) |
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527 | (1) |
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527 | (1) |
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The Death of Marilyn Monroe |
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528 | (1) |
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529 | (1) |
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530 | (1) |
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531 | (1) |
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Crazy Arms: Earlene Remembers |
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531 | (1) |
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Studying Physics with My Daughter |
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532 | (1) |
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Epithalamium and Shivaree |
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536 | (1) |
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536 | (1) |
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Watching Dogwood Blossoms Fall in a Parking Lot off Route 46 |
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546 | (1) |
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547 | (1) |
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The Persistence of Nature in Our Lives |
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547 | (1) |
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548 | (2) |
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550 | (1) |
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News of the Occluded Cyclone |
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551 | (1) |
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Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama |
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559 | (1) |
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There Comes the Strangest Moment |
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565 | (1) |
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The Powwow at the End of the World |
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567 | (1) |
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571 | (1) |
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581 | (1) |
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597 | (19) |
| PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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616 | (11) |
| INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES |
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627 | (13) |
| INDEX OF FIRST LINES |
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640 | (5) |
| INDEX OF PRINCIPAL TERMS AND TOPICS |
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