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Title Author Year
The Hollow Men T. S. Eliot 1925
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be] William Shakespeare 1603
Song of Myself, 51 Walt Whitman 1891
Invictus William Ernest Henley 1888
The Summer Day Mary Oliver 1990
Because I could not stop for Death (479) Emily Dickinson 1951
The Bells Edgar Allan Poe 1850
“The world is a beautiful place” Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017
Tincture Andrea Gibson 2018
What the Living Do Marie Howe 1998
The Weary Blues Langston Hughes 1926
[since feeling is first] E. E. Cummings 1926
Singularity Marie Howe 2019
On Living Nâzim Hikmet 1994
Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1922
On Growing Old John Masefield 1919
A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe 1820
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees Muriel Leung 2026
Passage to India Walt Whitman 1891

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