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Title Author Year
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
The Letter Amy Lowell 1915
Self-Portrait Adam Zagajewski 1997
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956
In Exile Bryher 1922
Ipswich Eugene Field 1906
[The will to see oneself as fragile] Tracy K. Smith 2023
Barnes & Noble, 1999 Jesús I. Valles 2022
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
Play the Game Jessie Pope 2018
To One in Paradise Edgar Allan Poe 2018
From “Pieces of Kate” Eamon Grennan 2010
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
The Past Louise Glück 2014
Spring Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I] William Shakespeare 1623
Oh Who Is That Young Sinner A. E. Housman 1937
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Helen H.D. 1982
Self and Life George Eliot 1884

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