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Poems
228 Total Poems • 226 Displaying
"They Dream Only of America"
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Free verse
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"To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage"
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Couplet
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#465 (591) ("I heard a Fly buzz——when I died——")
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Common meter
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(To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century)
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Common meter
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A Black Man Talks of Reaping
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Quatrain
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A Communication to Nancy Cunard
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Free verse
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A Grave
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Vers libre
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A Kind of Chill
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Free verse
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A Letter from Phillis Wheatley
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Blank verse
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A Song in the Front Yard
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Free verse
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A Step Away From Them
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Free verse
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A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
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Free verse
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After Apple-Picking
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Vers libre
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Altar
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Free verse
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An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
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Vers libre
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An Octopus
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Vers libre
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An Old Man's Winter Night
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Blank verse
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And One for My Dame
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Tercet
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at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989
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Free verse
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At the Crossroad
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Free verse
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At the Fishhouses
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Free verse
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At the Well
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Free verse
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At Tikal
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Blank verse
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Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
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Quatrain
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
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Quatrain
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Beaufort Tides
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Free verse
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Berryman
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Free verse
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Birches
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Blank verse
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Bird-Witted
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Vers libre
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Black Art
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Free verse
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