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W.G.C..

Cecilia Caballero.

Regie Cabico.

Scott Cairns.

Howell Calhoun.

F. O. Call

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan.

Nicole Callihan.

C.S. Calverley.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Vivienne Camille.

Tommaso Campanella.

A.Y. Campbell.

Blake N. Campbell.

Christian Campbell

Joseph Campbell.

K.A. Campbell, Jr..

Thomas Campbell.

W. Wilfred Campbell.

Prof. Wm. Campbell [active 1848] | Prof. Campbell [active 1849].

Rafael Campo

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello.

Skipwith Cannell.

Cao Zhi: See Ts'ao Chih.

Ethna Carbery.

Giosue Carducci.

Carol Ann Carl.

Will Carleton.

Bliss Carman

Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey.

Edward Carpenter.

Lewis Carroll.

Paul Carroll.

Anne Carson

David Gillis Carter.

Alice Cary.

Phoebe Cary.

Roger Casement.

Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner collaboration.

Walter Richard Cassels.

Rosario Castellanos.

Ana Castillo

John Castillo.

Adrian Castro.

Willa Cather

George Spencer Cautley

C.P. Cavafy

Madison J. Cawein

Ceiriog aka John Ceiriog Hughes.

Andres Cerpa

John R. Chamberlain.

Dorothy Chan.

Marianne Chan.

Wo Chan.

Mrs. M.T.W. Chandler.

Chia-Lun Chang.

Jennifer Chang

K-Ming Chang

Tina Chang.

Victoria Chang.

Joseph Horatio Chant.

Ty Chapman.

Jos Charles.

Cortney Lamar Charleston.

Harindranath Chattopadhyaya.

Votey Cheav.

Connstynce Nduta Chege.

Catherine Chen.

Chen Chen.

Ken Chen.

Tania Chen.

Wendy Chen.

Cheng Min: See Zheng Min.

Nora Chesson: See Nora Hopper.

G.K. Chesterton.

Johnson Cheu.

Chia Yi.

Dan Chiasson.

William Chiddon.

Wilfred R. Childe.

M.C. Childs.

Chimenqush: See Chimengul Awut.

Ching-In Chen

Gospel Chinedu.

Onyedikachi Chinedu.

Jose Santos Chocano.

Chiwan Choi

Franny Choi.

Roshani Chokshi.

May Chong.

Serena Chopra.

Annie Rothwell Christie.

Pacella Chukwuma- Eke.

Samantha H. Chung.

Rosie Churchill.

Richard Chwedyk.

John Ciardi.

Gabrielle Civil.

John Clare.

G. O. Clark.

Patricia Clark.

Tiana Clark.

Thomas Clarke.

Killarney Clary.

Pearl Cleage

Elena Clementelli.

Cody-Rose Clevidence.

Lucille Clifton

Caroline Clive: See V..

Virginia Woodward Cloud.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Florence Earle Coates

Ama Codjoe

Frank Barbour Coffin.

Leonard Cohen

Chris Colderly.

Alicia Cole.

Henri Cole

Aaron Coleman

Jamie Harris Coleman

Wanda Coleman

Hartley Coleridge.

Mary E. Coleridge.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Donovon Kūhiō Colleps.

Billy Collins

Donte Collins.

William Collins.

Vittoria Colonna.

Arthur Colton

Padraic Colum.

Susan Comninos.

S.R. Compton.

Katie Condon.

Helen Gray Cone.

Henry Rutgers Conger.

Hilda Conkling

CAConrad.

Flower Conroy.

Katherine Eleanor Conway.

Eliza Cook.

Ina [Ida] Coolbrith.

Susan Coolidge

Edith Emma Cooper: See Michael Field.

Benjamin Copeland.

Rasheed Copeland

Cora [poet].

Giorgiomaria Cornelio.

Frances Cornford.

Eduardo C. Corral.

William Cory.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.

Charles Cotton.

E. [Emily] Coungeau.

James H. Cousins.

Abraham Cowley.

William Cowper.

Eleanor Rogers Cox.

Stefani Cox.

Frederick Swartwout Cozzens: See Richard Haywarde.

George Crabbe.

Dorsey Craft.

Brody Parrish Craig.

C.P. Cranch.

Maxe Crandall.

Hart Crane

Nathalia Crane

Stephen Crane.

Walter Crane.

Laura Cranehill.

Adelaide Crapsey

Richard Crashaw.

Robert Creeley

James Crews.

Arthur Shearly Cripps.

Jan Cronos.

George Cronyn.

Barbara Crooker.

Mrs Newton Crosland [Camilla Dufour Crosland].

Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu.

Jennifer Crow.

Rev. William Crowe.

Aleister Crowley.

Shutta Crum.

Cynthia Cruz.

Rachelle Cruz.

Countee Cullen.

e.e. cummings

Allan Cunningham.

Charlotte Cushman.

Clara Cushman: See Alice B. Neal.

Olive Custance.

Kurt Cyrus



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Prone to the benediction of salt - Shutta Crum "Above the Strandline"

Voices lost in the dry hollows of bones - Shutta Crum "All That is Left"

Resolutely through centuries of remorse - Shutta Crum "All That is Left"

Who patiently knit dark hours into tangled shrouds - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

In the dark recess where one weeps for Grendel - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

Let the impatient wind push me - Shutta Crum "At the River"

Into canyons intimate with water - Shutta Crum "At the River"

Find forgiveness in the ancient light - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"

Stopped clocks and voices cut short - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"

Woven into the battlements of prayer - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"

The kind of road that furthered dreams - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"

When I was young and sure of heart - Shutta Crum "The Highway of the Three Graces"

In a time of silent horizons - Shutta Crum "Hitchhiker"

Eroding words between brothers - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

Dark seam woven of regret - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

Amid the persistence of fireflies - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

In the rustling music from cottonwood trees - Shutta Crum "Lavender Doe"

Bent against the angle of the Earth - Shutta Crum "Mausoleums"

Mindful of the engraver's task - Shutta Crum "Moab"

Found some anchorage amid our days - Shutta Crum "Navigation"

To float through star-littered fields - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

To bathe naked in the Euphrates - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

To sleep adrift in birdsong - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

The sweetest of windswept memories - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"

Hurtling into that unrelenting future - Shutta Crum "Reading Brodsky (in English) While Stirring Soup"

Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

Forgot to harvest the poems - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

Nightshade tucked neatly in his buttonhole - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"


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Steadily traipsing toward dawn - Susan Comninos "Arctic Traveler"

A golem from a palmful of dirt - Susan Comninos "Bequeathal"

Torn pocket of time - Susan Comninos "Bequeathal"

Because we were the bones of bees - Susan Comninos "During COVID, She Dreams of Leaving a Masked Man"

Zipped in their maps of skin - Susan Comninos "Naked Admission: a Fantasy"

Enters as a forgiven guest - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

The air is full of tolerant embraces - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

My most faithful sense of your indifference - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

Ask for a remission of words - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"


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Skin wrapping the thankful bones - Patricia Clark "Creed"

With dreams of basil and butter - Patricia Clark "Creed"

The fretting of shadow and sun - Patricia Clark "Creed"

In the temptation of an umbrella - Patricia Clark "Creed"

At the right hand of whatever spirit guides us - Patricia Clark "Creed"


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Bud to flower in the time of spring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

Love's richest music flowing - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

In a world of stifling air alone - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

Weak and worn with my inquiring - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

Heaven's gracious radiance smiled - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Glowed within the wines we drank - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

We to the quiet shades descend - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Flowers around our banquet flung - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Smiled straight into the skies - Giosue Carducci "Beatrice" transl. by Frank Sewall

Kept alive their ardent zeal - Giosue Carducci "Beatrice" transl. by Frank Sewall

From rebel soil a noble flower - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall

To the muse impart the laurel crown - Giosue Carducci "Carlo Goldoni" transl. by Frank Sewall

Through a lonely cloister's corridors - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Too heavily bent by burden of the snow - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Sharp explosions of the cracking ice - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Nature's mute and haughty horror - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

The drowsy coals a livelier sparkle take - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

The scent of April's fruitful showers - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Her eyrie on the jagged cliff - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Hovel" transl. by Frank Sewall

Protects the mastiff's sleep - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Hovel" transl. by Frank Sewall

Crowned with her hundred castles - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall

The happy progeny of mirth - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall

Disappear upon the sorrow-mingled pathway - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Garret" transl. by Frank Sewall

In dazzling robes of silk and gold - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from Beneath" transl. by Frank Sewall

Still lift my songs and vows - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall

The crown and sword alike relentless - Giosue Carducci "Dante [O Dante, why is it that I adoring]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Obscure with crowds of visions and of shades - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Wild clamour and fierce tumult tore - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

The hissing flames of civil war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Breathed only anger and destruction - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

From beneath the dust of buried centuries - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

This endless fraud and shadow - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Explored the depths of all the universe - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

In the midst of secret things - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

That make forever dark the vales of hell - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Stifled with the heat of the July sun - Giosue Carducci "A Dream in Summer" transl. by Frank Sewall

Veiled in the glow of the golden broom - Giosue Carducci "A Dream in Summer" transl. by Frank Sewall

Green blackness of the tangled wood - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall

With the dying splendours of the sun - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall

Untouched by fiery Etna's deadly charms - Giosue Carducci "Homer" transl. by Frank Sewall

Who wage a war with the invisible - Giosue Carducci "In a Gothic Church" transl. by Frank Sewall

Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall

The elm-trees white with dust - Giosue Carducci "The Mother" transl. by Frank Sewall

Flay the very heavens with its raging - Giosue Carducci "Old Figurines" transl. by Frank Sewall

Across the red vapours descending - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall

The swallows wove and rewove their crooked flight - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall

Mocking me from among the pomegranates - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall

A homeless, wandering nightingale - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Disdainful of the present world - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Knocked fretful at the portals of the morrow - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

The jackdaw's noisy company - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Aimed against the oligarchs - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

With intrepid step began to climb - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Morning mist from purest ether sifting - Giosue Carducci "On the Sixth Centenary of Dante" transl. by Frank Sewall

The dawn to daylight shifting - Giosue Carducci "On the Sixth Centenary of Dante" transl. by Frank Sewall

Beneath the seagull's screaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

The roar of waters and the lightning's gleaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

Memory, down whose face the tears are streaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

At the gate of dark oblivion's lands - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

The dust of broken empires - Giosue Carducci "Roma" transl. by Frank Sewall

Object of their ancient dread - Giosue Carducci "Roma" transl. by Frank Sewall

Entwined a wreath of peaceful olive - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

A Titan slain in some desperate battle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Happy on entering the dance - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Through the holy joys of the azure - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Three boughs of sacred laurel and myrtle - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall

Snow-flakes fall through the ashen heavens - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under" transl. by Frank Sewall

A world far remote from our daylight - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under" transl. by Frank Sewall

Peck at the darkened window - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under" transl. by Frank Sewall

Each thought becomes a harmony - Giosue Carducci "Sun and Love" transl. by Frank Sewall

The nuptials of flowers and the marriage of streams - Giosue Carducci "To Aurora" transl. by Frank Sewall

Danced in the sphere serene - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall

Inexorable truth with its cold shadow - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall

Whose domain holds Virgil's ashes - Giosue Carducci "Vincenzo Monti" transl. by Frank Sewall

To spread its veil of summer frost - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall

The nightingale pours forth her secret boon - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall

Of one speech and one endeavour - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

With my best gifts abounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

Arms hosts your gates surrounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

An awful flash in heaven burning - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall


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The sweet Lark shall sing unheard - Rev. William Crowe "The British Theatre. Written in 1775"

Dispersed as Sibyl's leaves of yore - Rev. William Crowe "Epigram"

Props and pillars of our state - Rev. William Crowe "An Expostulatory Supplication to Death, After the Decease of Dr. Burney"

And make Neptune's self to quake - Rev. William Crowe "From Purchase's Pilgrimage, Versified and Designed as a Motto to 'Voyages for the Discovery of a N.W. Passage'"

The melancholy trait of patience - Rev. William Crowe "Inscribed Beneath the Picture of an Ass"

Dripping rains of chill December - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Robed in the livery of spring - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

A cap of flowery hawthorn - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Against the birth of May - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Be found at last not profitless - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Yet it flows along untainted - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Cool water to the thirsty lamb - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Spies on Heaven's work - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Includes all reasonable ends of knowledge - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Vanishing in a lie - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

With false weapons of Philosophy - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

By Neptune's wild and foamy jaws - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

By soft gradations of ascent - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Planted an immortal grove - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

A rank of castles in the rough sea sunk - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Proof against the storm of war - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

To create envy in the immortals - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Th' embattled aid of angry Neptune - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Runs crafty down the wind - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

And shun the land too perilous - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

To the trackless deep they trust - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

That Time has made his prey - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Pervade the yielded avenues of sense - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

With the destined heirs of glory - Rev. William Crowe "Lines Written at the Tomb of William of Wykeham, in Winchester Cathedral"

Too valueless to be the prize - Rev. William Crowe "Lines Written with a Pencil in a Lady's Almanac"

The warring winds of heaven - Rev. William Crowe "Midnight Devotion. Written in the Great Storm, 1822"

Where Angels rode in fiery guard - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

Who fight in quarrels not their own - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

To this most perilous venture run - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

Giving a false alarm in jest - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"

Who bent his daring sail to untried winds - Rev. William Crowe "On the Death of Captain Cook"

In what slow pomp the Rogues advance - Rev. William Crowe "On the Funeral of --, in a Hearse and Six, Followed by a Mourning Coach and Four"

On Milton's adamantine verse - Rev. William Crowe "On Two Publications, Entitled Editions of Two of Our Poems"

Where golden Ceres left her child - Rev. William Crowe "The Rape of Proserpine"

As lovers' tears should sanctify - Rev. William Crowe "Sonnet to Petrarch"

Had Imps and Witches many a one - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"

By vengeful laws the Wizard brood - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"

All repair before the throne of Lucifer - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"

New-liveried in sulphur flame - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"

Ask not the idle cards to show - Rev. William Crowe "To a Lady, Fortune-Telling with Cards"

And drink, themselves, the bitter cup they mix - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

Whom Justice arms for vengeance - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

With the fire of cities burnt - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

Sing their mad hymns of triumph - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

The spoil of injured lands - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Spoken in the Theatre, Oxford, at the Installation of the Chancellor, Lord Grenville, July 10, 1810, by Henry Crowe, a Commoner of Wadham College"

Patient labour and unabated zeal - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Spoken in the Theatre, Oxford, at the Installation of the Chancellor, Lord Grenville, July 10, 1810, by Henry Crowe, a Commoner of Wadham College"

To warn us of the dire intent - Rev. William Crowe "Verses to the Honour of the London Pastrycook, Who Marked 'No Popery' on His Pies, &C."

Alarm of danger widely spread - Rev. William Crowe "Verses to the Honour of the London Pastrycook, Who Marked 'No Popery' on His Pies, &C."

Ere Chaos lost his kingdom - Rev. William Crowe "The World: Intended as an Apology for Not Writing: By a Lady"

Leaving unsung its argument - Rev. William Crowe "The World: Intended as an Apology for Not Writing: By a Lady"

The wall which bounds the universe - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

Out of old Moons was busy cutting Stars - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

As if old Time had lent him scythe and wings - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"


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A boy with hands that tremble - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

In a courtyard slicked by rain and blood - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Tosses maple seeds in the air to spiral - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

But any memory of that has been crushed out of them - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

They lie and wait for time to grind them to dust - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

And hides from sharp knives in the night - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Red wells too deep to bring up tears - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Magpies dart around the castle's banners - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

He wonders if their ghosts remember him - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

If they have gone too far to recall their stolen lives - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Adding the dead, dividing the living, multiplying the sorrows - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

From the beds of dying streams - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

I call the gems from the necks of fair ladies - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The rich things stolen from the earth - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Unblinking in the sun of another day - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Cast down from heights to languish - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The pulse forgotten in the flow of stone - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Swallowing the veins of rivers - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

All these I encompass in my calling - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

All these I summon to rise up and bring fire - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

To dance creation on the fragile and the unmindful - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The old gods shaking existence beneath my feet - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Our ancestors watched it blossom - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Sweet cakes and honey and wine - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Lives left at the altar of knowledge - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Seduced by the memory of its birth - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

They broke a pitiless enemy - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Orbit our compass star - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Rain, forgotten between stars - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

We grieved like the shadow that gives birth to worlds - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Fought with all the strength of poetry - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

The sun devoured them, and they became the light - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"


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Your own incandescent lives - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

In footprints made deep - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

A wind that always blows colder - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

Understand the rhythm of our song - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

Your names as a talisman and a touchstone - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

Standing alone in the light - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"


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In shaky hands of an old maple - Chris Colderly "For Our Children's Children: Celebrating Chief Dan George"

Greet the new day like a stranger - Chris Colderly "For Our Children's Children: Celebrating Chief Dan George"

And watch the ghosts dance - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"

Hold the relic to your ear - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"

Listen to the ancient silence - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"


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Also where lynched men die - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

With such upon her tide, freedom can't reign - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

The world pronounce you free - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Let justice reign supreme - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Let men be what they seem - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

How can our land be bright? - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"


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