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Poem Title   Author
Song
Feb. 21, 2005
Oct. 11, 1996
Oct. 11, 1998
 
W. H. Auden
Song
Aug. 31, 1993
 
John Clare
Song
Mar. 27, 2003
Mar. 27, 2004
 
John Ciardi
Song
Sep. 19, 1996
 
Elizabeth Bishop
Song
Apr. 3, 1997
 
Robert Browning
Song
Mar. 16, 1993
 
John Donne
Song
Jun. 12, 2008
 
Edwin Denby
Song and Dance
Dec. 17, 2010
 
Jonathan Greene
Song by an Old Shepherd
Nov. 28, 1994
 
William Blake
Song for a Daughter
Oct. 3, 2012
 
Ursula Le Guin
Song For the Squeeze Box
May. 21, 2001
 
Theodore Roethke
song from "The Tempest"
Apr. 23, 2000
 
William Shakespeare
Song from Patience
Jun. 19, 1993
 
W. S. Gilbert
Song of Myself (excerpt)
Sep. 17, 2000
Oct. 22, 2002
Nov. 11, 2002
Nov. 12, 2002
Nov. 13, 2002
Nov. 14, 2002
Nov. 15, 2002
Nov. 16, 2002
Nov. 17, 2002
May. 31, 2004
Mar. 19, 1995
May. 31, 1995
Feb. 20, 1996
May. 31, 1996
May. 15, 1997
Oct. 5, 1997
Sep. 17, 1999
May. 14, 1993
May. 27, 1993
May. 31, 2009
 
Walt Whitman
Song of Smoke
Aug. 28, 2013
 
Kevin Young
Song of Solomon
Feb. 16, 1994
Feb. 19, 1995
Mar. 21, 1995
May. 19, 2010
 
Anonymous
Song of Summer
Jun. 25, 1995
 
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song of the Master and the Boatswain
May. 21, 1999
 
W. H. Auden
Song of the Open Road (excerpt)
Nov. 13, 1996
May. 31, 1998
May. 31, 1999
Feb. 15, 1993
 
Walt Whitman
Song of the Wandering Aengus
Jun. 12, 2000
Jan. 23, 1994
Jun. 12, 1999
 
William Butler Yeats
Song of the Wonderful Surprise
Dec. 29, 2008
 
Kelly Cherry
Song to Eggs
Oct. 4, 1993
 
Roy Blount Jr.
Song to Grease
Jul. 31, 1995
 
Roy Blount Jr.
Song to Grits
Jul. 31, 1995
 
Roy Blount Jr.
Song to Onions
May. 18, 2002
May. 18, 2005
 
Roy Blount Jr.

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