Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Because I could not stop for Death (479)	Emily Dickinson	1951
And death shall have no dominion	Dylan Thomas	1943
Nothing But Death	Pablo Neruda	1993
Morning in the Burned House	Margaret Atwood	1995
The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot	1922
The Soldier	Rupert Brooke	1914
A Small Needful Fact	Ross Gay	2016
Statement of Purpose	Kyle Carrero Lopez	2026
The Listeners	Walter de la Mare	1912
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Sailing to Byzantium	W. B. Yeats	1928
Beyond the Years	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Gitanjali 97	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
In Memoriam [±That after all this I have still chosen life.]	Jimin Seo	2026
Gitanjali 95	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull	George Gordon Byron	1922
I heard a Fly buzz (465)	Emily Dickinson	1998
Song [When I am dead, my dearest]	Christina Rossetti	1862
Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship	Camonghne Felix	2023
From “Simple Verses”	José Martí	2005

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