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Title Author Year
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
The Comfort of Darkness Galway Kinnell 2018
Calculations Brenda Cárdenas 2016
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66) William Shakespeare 1609
Happiness A. A. Milne 1924
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly Ariana Brown 2026
The Changeling Charlotte Mew 1921
Beauty is not caused (57) Emily Dickinson 1929
In the Forest Oscar Wilde 1909
The Habit of Perfection Gerard Manley Hopkins 1916
Ode on Melancholy John Keats 1820
Fall Didi Jackson 2019
Fugue Suji Kwock Kim 2018
On Clothes Kahlil Gibran 1923
On the Freedom of the Press Benjamin Franklin 2017
Life Joe Brainard 2012
Daily Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
How to See Deer Philip Booth 1999
Deer Dancer Joy Harjo 1990
Gitanjali 69 Rabindranath Tagore 1916

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