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James Brown’s Rhetoric - George Elliott Clarke
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We Wear the Mask
Read by David Yezzi
We Wear the Mask - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Read by David Yezzi
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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 - William Wordsworth - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Author to Her Book
Read by Mary Jo Salter
The Author to Her Book - Anne Bradstreet - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Read by Andrew Motion
by John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - John Donne - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Read by Andrew Motion
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Read by Andrew Motion
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd - Walter Raleigh - Read by Andrew Motion
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Sympathy
Read by David Yezzi
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Read by David Yezzi
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Wild nights – Wild nights!
Read by Mary Jo Salter
Wild nights – Wild nights! - Emily Dickinson - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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I never lost as much as twice
Read by Mary Jo Salter
I never lost as much as twice - Emily Dickinson - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Read by David Yezzi
by Walt Whitman
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d - Walt Whitman - Read by David Yezzi
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Song of Myself
Read by David Yezzi
by Walt Whitman
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman - Read by David Yezzi
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Annabel Lee
Read by David Yezzi
Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe - Read by David Yezzi
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A Red, Red Rose
Read by Jim Carruth
by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns - Read by Jim Carruth
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To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785
Read by Jim Carruth
by Robert Burns