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The Public Garden

Robert Lowell
October 1, 1962

The Lost Ingredient

Anne Sexton
July 1, 1959
Marble sarcophagus with garlands ca. A.D. 200–225. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Garland for You

Robert Penn Warren
January 1, 1958
Floral Garlands of Nany, ca. 1050 B.C. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Closed For Good

Robert Frost
July 1, 1949
Graphic with lyres. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

Ars Poetica

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1948
Two hands reaching toward each other. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

Next Moment

Marie Borroff
April 1, 1948
Rodrigo Moynihan, Light Bulbs, 1982, oil on canvas. Collection of Robert Becker. Courtesy of Kasmin Gallery.

My Philosophy of Life

John Ashbery
September 1, 1943

The Shortest Way Home

Muriel Rukeyser
October 1, 1939
Hilma af Klint, Evolution, No. 13, Group VI, 1908.

Take My Vows

Dorothy Parker
October 1, 1930