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Title	Author	Year
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,]	Christina Rossetti	1872
The Message to the Fish	Lewis Carroll	1872
The Smile of Innocence	Lucretia Maria Davidson	1871
One Girl	Sappho	1870
Sonnet LIX: Love’s Last Gift	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	1869
The Seraph and Poet	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1869
Aspiration	Adah Isaacs Menken	1868
The Past	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
Woman—The Poet	Frances Dana Barker Gage	1867
Dover Beach	Matthew Arnold	1867
Twilight	Fitz-Greene Halleck	1865
Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child	Lewis Carroll	1865
Winter with the Gulf Stream	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1863
Upon the Mountain’s Distant Head	William Cullen Bryant	1862
Answer July	Emily Dickinson	1862
A Southern Night	Matthew Arnold	1861
Freedom and Truth	Margaret Fuller	1859
The Alpine Sheep	Maria White Lowell	1855
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	Walt Whitman	1855
What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet	Tso-le-oh-woh	1853

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