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Title Author Year
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
My life closed twice before its close (96) Emily Dickinson 1890
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
If You Knew Ellen Bass 2018
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
I saw a man pursuing the horizon Stephen Crane 2013
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
You Can’t Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?] William Shakespeare 1623
A Prayer in Spring Robert Frost 2018
The Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
The Great Lover Rupert Brooke 1915
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Ernest Dowson 1900
YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON! Sasha Debevec-McKenney 2020
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 2006
Barter Sara Teasdale 1917
A Song on the End of the World Czesław Miłosz 1944
Post Impressions (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
Crossing Jericho Brown 2019
A Meeting Edith Wharton 2019

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