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| Introduction | |
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| A Poem on Frozen Time (Poemat o czasie zastyglym, 1933) | |
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| Artificer | |
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| Three Winters (Trzy zimy, 1936) | |
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| The Song | |
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| The Gates of the Arsenal | |
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| Hymn | |
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| Dawns | |
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| Slow River | |
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| Statue of a Couple | |
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| Rescue (Ocalenie, 1945) | |
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| Ballad of Levallois | |
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| Encounter | |
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| A Book in the Ruins | |
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| Day of Generation | |
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| Campo dei Fiori | |
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| The World | |
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| The Road | |
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| The Gate | |
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| The Porch | |
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| The Dining Room | |
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| The Stairs | |
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| Pictures | |
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| Father in the Library | |
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| Father's Incantations | |
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| From the Window | |
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| Father Explains | |
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| A Parable of the Poppy | |
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| By the Peonies | |
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| Faith | |
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| Hope | |
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| Love | |
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| The Excursion to the Forest | |
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| The Bird Kingdom | |
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| Fear | |
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| Recovery | |
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| The Sun | |
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| Voices of Poor People | |
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| A Song on the End of the World | |
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| Song of a Citizen | |
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| The Poor Poet | |
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| Cafe | |
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| A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto | |
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| Outskirts | |
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| Songs of Adrian Zielinski | |
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| Farewell | |
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| Flight | |
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| In Warsaw | |
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| Dedication | |
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| Daylight (Swiatlo dzienne, 1953) | |
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| Song on Porcelain | |
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| Child of Europe | |
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| Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait | |
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| A Nation | |
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| Birth | |
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| A Family | |
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| Ocean | |
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| The Journey | |
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| The Spirit of the Laws | |
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| A Legend | |
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| Earth | |
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| You Who Wronged | |
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| Mittelbergheim | |
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| A Treatise on Poetry (Traktat poetycki, 1957) | |
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| Preface | |
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| Beautiful Times | |
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| The Capital | |
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| The Spirit of History | |
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| Natura | |
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| Ode | |
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| King Popiel and Other Poems (Krol Popiel i inne wiersze, 1962) | |
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| King Popiel | |
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| Magpiety | |
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| Lessons | |
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| No More | |
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| Ode to a Bird | |
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| Happiness | |
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| What Once Was Great | |
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| Should, Should Not | |
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| What Does It Mean | |
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| Heraclitus | |
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| Greek Portrait | |
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| The Master | |
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| A Frivolous Conversation | |
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| In Milan | |
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| From the Chronicles of the Town of Pornic | |
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| Bluebeard's Castle | |
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| The Owners | |
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| Vandeans | |
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| Our Lady of Recovery | |
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| Album of Dreams | |
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| Far West | |
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| Throughout Our Lands | |
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| Bobo's Metamorphosis (Gucio zaczarowany, 1965) | |
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| It Was Winter | |
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| Bobo's Metamorphosis | |
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| Rivers Grow Small | |
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| They Will Place There Telescreens | |
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| On the Other Side | |
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| And the City Stood in Its Brightness | |
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| Those Corridors | |
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| Three Talks on Civilization | |
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| Sentences | |
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| I Sleep a Lot | |
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| Dithyramb | |
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| City Without a Name (Miasto bez imienia, 1969) | |
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| The Year | |
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| City Without a Name | |
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| When the Moon | |
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| Veni Creator | |
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| Window | |
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| With Trumpets and Zithers | |
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| How It Was | |
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| On the Road | |
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| Whiteness | |
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| Thesis and Counter-Thesis | |
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| Counsels | |
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| Incantation | |
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| Ars Poetica? | |
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| Higher Arguments in Favor of Discipline Derived from the Speech Before the Council of the Universal State in 2068 | |
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| Island | |
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| My Faithful Mother Tongue | |
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| Uncollected Poems 1954-1969 | |
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| Esse | |
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| A Mistake | |
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| How Ugly | |
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| To Robinson Jeffers | |
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| To Raja Rao | |
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| From the Rising of the Sun (Gdzie wschodzi slonce i kedy zapada, 1974) | |
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| A Task | |
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| An Hour | |
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| A Story | |
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| Readings | |
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| Occonomia Divina | |
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| Tidings | |
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| L'Acceleration de l'Histoire | |
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| Elegy for N. N. | |
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| An Appeal | |
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| Calling to Order | |
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| Not This Way | |
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| So Little | |
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| On Angels | |
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| Seasons | |
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| Gift | |
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| From the Rising of the Sun | |
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| The Unveiling | |
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| Diary of a Naturalist | |
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| Lauda | |
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| Over Cities | |
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| A Short Recess | |
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| The Accuser | |
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| Bells in Winter | |
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| Hymn of the Pearl (Hymn o perle, 1981) | |
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| A Magic Mountain | |
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| The View | |
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| Caesarea | |
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| Study of Loneliness | |
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| A Felicitous Life | |
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| The Fall | |
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| Temptation | |
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| Secretaries | |
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| Proof | |
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| Amazement | |
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| Idea | |
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| Filina | |
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| Reading the Japanese Poet Issa (1762-1826) | |
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| Notes | |
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| Before Majesty | |
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| A Poetic State | |
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| Distance | |
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| When After a Long Life | |
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| On Pilgrimage | |
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| Early Morning | |
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| A Portal | |
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| The Separate Notebooks | |
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| A Mirrored Gallery | |
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| Pages Concerning the Years of Independence | |
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| The Wormwood Star | |
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| Bypassing Rue Descartes | |
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| Account | |
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| Rivers | |
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| Unattainable Earth (Nieobjeta ziemia, 1986) | |
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| The Garden of Earthly Delights | |
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| Summer | |
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| A Ball | |
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| Paradise | |
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| Earth | |
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| Earth Again | |
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| After Paradise | |
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| The Hooks of a Corset | |
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| Annalena | |
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| Yellow Bicycle | |
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| Into the Tree | |
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| One More Day | |
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| Winter | |
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| A Boy | |
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| In Salem | |
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| 1913 | |
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| At Dawn | |
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| At Noon | |
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| Return to Krakow in 1880 | |
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| The City | |
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| Preparation | |
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| "With not-quite truth ..." | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| On Prayer | |
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| Father Ch., Many Years Later | |
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| Initiation | |
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| Elegy for Y. Z. | |
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| Anka | |
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| Theodicy | |
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| Table I | |
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| Table II | |
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| My-ness | |
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| Thankfulness | |
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| Poet at Seventy | |
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| "To find my home ..." | |
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| New Poems 1985-1987 | |
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| A Portrait with a Cat | |
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| Mary Magdalen and I | |
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| A Skull | |
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| In a Jar | |
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| All Hallows' Eve | |
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| This Only | |
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| A Confession | |
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| For Jan Lebenstein | |
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| With Her | |
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| Old Women | |
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| How It Should Be in Heaven | |
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| Caffe Greco | |
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| And Yet the Books | |
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| On Parting with My Wife, Janina | |
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| Powers | |
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| La Belle Epoque | |
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| The Trans-Siberian Railway | |
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| Beyond the Urals | |
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| First Performance | |
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| The Northern Route | |
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| Revolutionaries | |
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| A Parisian Scene | |
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| The Titanic | |
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| Fear-Dream (1918) | |
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| In a Buggy at Dusk | |
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| 1945 | |
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| Six Lectures in Verse | |
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| Provinces (Dalsze okolice, 1991) | |
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| Blacksmith Shop | |
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| Adam and Eve | |
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| Evening | |
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| Creating the World | |
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| Linnaeus | |
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| In Music | |
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| Incarnated | |
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| Mister Hanusevich | |
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| Philology | |
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| And Yet | |
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| At Yale | |
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| Beinecke Library | |
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| The Thistle, the Nettle | |
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| Reconciliation | |
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| Abode | |
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| A New Province | |
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| Reading the Notebook of Anna Kamienska | |
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| Youth | |
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| In Common | |
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| A Photograph | |
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| Lastingness | |
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| Either-Or | |
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| Two Poems | |
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| Conversation with Jeanne | |
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| A Poem for the End of the Century | |
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| Spider | |
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| Far Away | |
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| Inheritor | |
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| Gathering Apricots | |
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| Meditation | |
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| On a Beach | |
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| Return | |
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| *** | |
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| Good Night | |
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| December 1 | |
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| Dante | |
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| Meaning | |
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| Kazia | |
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| A Philosopher's Home | |
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| Facing the River (Na brzegu rzeki, 1995) | |
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| At a Certain Age | |
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| A Lecture | |
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| Why | |
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| Capri | |
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| Report | |
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| Lithuania, After Fifty-two Years | |
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| A Goddess | |
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| The Manor | |
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| A Certain Neighborhood | |
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| A Naiad | |
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| Who? | |
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| City of My Youth | |
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| A Meadow | |
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| Translating Anna Swir on an Island of the Caribbean | |
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| To My Daimonion | |
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| The Wall of a Museum | |
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| Biography of an Artist | |
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| The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hell | |
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| Realism | |
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| One More Contradiction | |
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| Woe! | |
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| Pierson College | |
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| Sarajevo | |
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| To Allen Ginsberg | |
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| A Human Fly | |
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| House in Krasnogruda | |
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| A Polka-dot Dress | |
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| Plato's Dialogues | |
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| Undressing Justine | |
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| Retired | |
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| Wanda | |
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| To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only | |
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| You Whose Name | |
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| This World | |
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| Happenings Elsewhere | |
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| A Hall | |
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| After Enduring | |
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| Body | |
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| In Szetejnie | |
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| Road-Side Dog (Piesek przydrozny, 1998) | |
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| Road-side Dog | |
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| Pelicans | |
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| A Ball | |
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| Watering Can | |
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| From My Dentist's Window | |
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| Autumn | |
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| Helene | |
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| Helene's Religion | |
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| Yokimura | |
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| America | |
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| Christopher Robin | |
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| Rivers | |
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| This (To, 2000) | |
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| This | |
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| To a Hazel Tree | |
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| I Do Not Understand | |
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| My Grandfather Sigismund Kunat | |
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| Lake | |
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| After Traveling | |
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| The Head | |
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| Forget | |
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| In a City | |
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| An Honest Description of Myself with a Glass of Whiskey at an Airport, Let Us Say, in Minneapolis | |
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| For My Eighty-eighth Birthday | |
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| A Run | |
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| By a Stream | |
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| O! | |
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| O! (Gustav Klimt) | |
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| O! (Salvator Rosa) | |
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| O! (Edward Hopper) | |
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| Wherever | |
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| Voyeur | |
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| So-called Life | |
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| Prescription | |
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| In Black Despair | |
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| Example | |
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| Awakened | |
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| Submerged | |
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| Vipera Berus | |
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| Texas | |
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| Craftsman | |
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| You, Vanquished | |
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| Specimens | |
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| The Year 1900 | |
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| Obviously | |
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| My Secrets | |
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| If | |
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| Zone of Silence | |
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| Selecting Iwaszkiewicz's Poems for an Evening of His Poetry at the National Theater in Warsaw | |
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| Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II | |
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| What I Learned from Jeanne Hersch | |
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| Opposed to Each Other | |
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| Zdziechowski | |
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| Against the Poetry of Philip Larkin | |
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| On the Death of a Poet | |
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| On the Inequality of Men | |
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| Aleksander Wat's Tie | |
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| To Robert Lowell | |
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| Pastels by Degas | |
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| On Poetry, Upon the Occasion of Many Telephone Calls After Zbigniew Herbert's Death | |
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| Unde Malum | |
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| Rozewicz | |
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| Gardener | |
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| One and Many | |
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| An Alcoholic Enters the Gates of Heaven | |
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| The Rite | |
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| Persons | |
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| In a Parish | |
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| Prayer | |
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| After | |
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| Rays of Dazzling Light | |
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| Late Ripeness | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index of Poems and Translators | |