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Richard Wilbur's Mind: Flying Through the Dark

In: American Poetry

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Oliver's Reckless Poem: Reincarnational Intimations

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Blake's The Chimney Sweeper: Sinister Symbolism

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 19: The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise

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Hayden's American Journal: The Quiddity of American Exceptionalism

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Auden's Canzone: Song of Love

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 18: I never gave a lock of hair away

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Blake's The Garden of Love: Euphemism’s Betrayal

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Yogananda's To the Aurora Borealis: Union of Inner and Outer Light

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Angelou's Touched by an Angel: We, unaccustomed to courage

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 17: My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes

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Kinnell's Blackberry Eating: Delicious Words on the Tongue

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Shakespeare's All the world's a stage: Seven Acts of Life

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 16: And yet, because thou overcomest so

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Yogananda's My Kinsmen: In spacious hall of trance

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 15: Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear

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Kay Ryan's Home to Roost: A Clever, Little Ditty

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Yogananda's Friendship: Is friendship the weaving of the red strings of two hearts?

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Neruda's Sonnet 73: You will perhaps recall that pointed man

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Brooks' the vacant lot: A Joyful Absence

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 14: If thou must love me, let it be for nought

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 13: And wilt thou have me fashion into speech

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Two Poems by George Washington: Young Love

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Collins' The Golden Years: Musing for Amusement

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Yogananda's Luther Burbank: A Tribute to Accomplishment

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 12: Indeed this very love which is my boast

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Dylan Thomas' And Death Shall Have No Dominion: No More Dying

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Hughes' Night Funeral in Harlem: A Question of Love

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Frost and the Versanelle: Master of Form

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 11: And therefore if to love can be desert

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Ralegh's The Lie: Speaking Truth to Power and Beyond

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 10: Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed

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Dickinson's Color—Caste—Denomination: The Futility of Human Classification

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Winch's Social Security: No Safety Nowadays

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 9: Can it be right to give what I can give?

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Frost's The Freedom of the Moon: The Greatness of Human Free Will

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Dickinson's I measure every Grief I meet: The Way of Suffering

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 8: What can I give thee back, O liberal

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Wordsworth's On The Banks Of A Rocky Stream: Mental Chaos

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Dickinson's After great pain: A Sculpture of Suffering

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Amichai's Near the Wall of a House: An Expansive Vision

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 7: The face of all the world is changed, I think

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Yogananda's I Am Lonely No More: Meeting the Big Self

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 6: Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand

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Dickinson's As imperceptibly as grief: Musing into Beauty

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Yogananda's My Prisoner: Securing Divine Love

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Johnson's Mother Night: God as Divine Mother

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 5: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

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Ferlinghetti's In Goya's Greatest Scenes We Seem: The Art of Exaggeration

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Yogananda's Some Treasure of my Own: Loving the Giver More Than His Gifts

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 4: Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor

In: British Poetry

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Larkin's Aubade: Fear of Not Being

In: British Poetry

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 3: Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!

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Yogananda's God's Boatman: A Guru’s Duty

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Simic's My Shoes: Post-postmodern Trivial Nonsense

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 2: But only three in all God's universe

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Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth: Religion and Reality

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Barrett Browning's Sonnet 1: I thought once how Theocritus had sung

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Lord Byron's She Walks in Beauty: Perfect Balance of Dark and Light

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Dickinson's There is another sky: Another World Created by Art

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Yogananda's When I Cast All Dreams Away: Pining for the Giver not the Gifts

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Whitman's Song of the Banner at Daybreak: The Patriot’s Symbol

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Hardy's Afterwards: The Memory He Leaves Behind

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Wordsworth's It is a Beauteous Evening: Holy and Quiet as a Nun

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Yogananda's When I Am Only a Dream: The Comfort of Eternal Spiritual Guidance

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Rossetti's Remember: Safekeeping Only the Good

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Brooke's The Soldier: Transcending Patriotic Service

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Yogananda's The Toiler's Lay: Running Away to the Divine

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Hopkins' The Habit of Perfection: Singing in the Silence

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Vaughn's Peace: Soul Bliss

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Wyatt's They Flee From Me: Women These Days

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Keats' When I have fears that I may cease to be: Love, Fame, and Nothingness

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De la Mare's The Listeners: The Strangeness Within

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Sandburg's Chicago: A Hulking Man of Steel

In: American Poetry

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Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee: Death Rimes With Love

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Turner's Here, Bullet: Fear and Transformation

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Shakespeare Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep

In: British Poetry

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Poet for June – James Weldon Johnson: Listen, Lord A Prayer

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Shakespeare Sonnets 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep

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Yogananda's Nature's Nature: The Seen Descends from the Unseen

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Shakespeare Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn

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McKay's Spring in New Hampshire: A Tribute to the Season of Rebirth

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Shakespeare Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is

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Frost's A Girl's Garden: Memory Lane

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Shakespeare Sonnet 150: O! from what power hast thou this powerful mght

In: British Poetry

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Williams' Proletarian Portrait: Capitalizing on the Marxist Mystique

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Shakespeare Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not

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Yogananda's The Royal Way: Opening the Lotus

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Dobyns' How to Like It: After Outliving One’s Enthusiasm

In: American Poetry

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Connelly's The Story: A Drama of Fear

In: Canadian Poetry

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Shakespeare Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head

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Shakespeare Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still

In: British Poetry

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Okri's They Say: Always a Future

In: World Poetry

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Shakespeare Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make

In: British Poetry

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Yogananda's My Cosmic Mother's Face: A Triumph of Light

In: World Poetry

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Shakespeare Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair

In: British Poetry

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May Poet – Countée Cullen: Analysis of Simon the Cyrenian Speaks

In: American Poetry

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Shakespeare Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch

In: British Poetry

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Yogananda's The Noble New: Rugged Individualism on the Path to Self-Realization

In: World Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

Shakespeare Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate

In: British Poetry

By: Feature Writer Linda Sue Grimes

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