"How done is gone?"

Dove, Hakohen, Roberts, Givhan, Dickinson

Rita Dove:

Ya’akov Hakohen (tr. from mid-Thirteenth Century Hebrew by Peter Cole):

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Katrina Roberts:

Jennifer Givhan:

Emily Dickinson:

These Strangers, / in a foreign World, / Protection asked / of me - / Befriend them,
lest yourself in / Heaven / Be found a / Refugee - Emily

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