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Title Author Year
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
The Great Lover Rupert Brooke 1915
To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere Luisa A. Igloria 2018
A Meeting Edith Wharton 2019
My life closed twice before its close (96) Emily Dickinson 1890
You Can’t Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
The Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
A Prayer in Spring Robert Frost 2018
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Ernest Dowson 1900
[suppose] E. E. Cummings 1925
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?] William Shakespeare 1623
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 2006
If You Knew Ellen Bass 2018
Song to Celia Ben Jonson 1616
A Song on the End of the World Czesław Miłosz 1944
Post Impressions (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
Barter Sara Teasdale 1917
Song of Myself, 3 Walt Whitman 1891

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