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My life closed twice before its close (96) Emily Dickinson 1890
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour Trumbull Stickney 1917
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Ernest Dowson 1900
Three Airs for the Beggar's Opera, Air XXII John Gay 1728
O, Gather Me the Rose William Ernest Henley 1874
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] Samuel Daniel 1610
Zero Star Hotel [At the Smith and Jones] Anselm Berrigan 2002
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
The Nonconformist’s Memorial Susan Howe 1994
A Woman's Delusion (audio only) Susan Howe 1994
Triad Adelaide Crapsey 1915
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window Adelaide Crapsey 1913
The Guarded Wound Adelaide Crapsey 1915
First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920
Babylon Robert Graves 1918
The Caterpillar Robert Graves 1918
America Claude McKay 1921
The Barrier Claude McKay 1922
The City’s Love Claude McKay 1922

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