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Title Author Year
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Ernest Dowson 1900
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
First Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920
Glen Uig Richard Hugo 2008
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
Surf Buddha Matthew Lippman 2007
The Layers Stanley Kunitz 1978
A Song on the End of the World Czesław Miłosz 1944
You Can't Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
The Great Lover Rupert Brooke 1915
Lullaby W. H. Auden 1940
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Mambo Jaime Manrique 1996
Song to Celia Ben Jonson 1616
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell 1681
Be Drunk Charles Baudelaire 1997

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