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Title Author Year
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death Lloyd Schwartz 2014
An August Midnight Thomas Hardy 1901
Lines: 'When the Lamp is Shattered' Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
On Quitting Edgar Guest 1912
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
The Opposite of Abandonment Alexis N. Garcia 2023
a feeling has passed before a charted present Kimberly Alidio 2021
Kumulipo Queen Liliʻuokalani 1897
The New Decade Hieu Minh Nguyen 2020
Song of Myself, 18 Walt Whitman 1891
Indigo Ellen Bass 2019
Asking for Roses Robert Frost 2018
The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe 2018
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose] A. E. Housman 2017
Grief Work Natalie Diaz 2015

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