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Title Author Year
Résumé Dorothy Parker 1926
It will be Summer eventually — (195) Emily Dickinson 1929
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
An Enigma Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Vampire Conrad Aiken 1914
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger 1917
Forever Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
Home Edgar Guest 1916
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 2017
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull George Gordon Byron 1922
If I should die (54) Emily Dickinson 1860
i didn’t eat the sun ire’ne lara silva 0026
Our Lady of the Garden Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
A Woman Is Talking to Death Judy Grahn 2016
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
summer, somewhere Danez Smith 2016
[suppose] E. E. Cummings 1925

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