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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
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
Uriel Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Gitanjali 27 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
A Solar Eclipse Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2017
Acceptance Robert Frost 1928
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done] William Shakespeare 2016
To make a prairie (1755) Emily Dickinson 1951
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears] William Shakespeare 2017
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
La Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats 1819
One Today Richard Blanco 2016
Summer Night, Riverside Sara Teasdale 1915
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs] Pablo Neruda 2016
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself] Walt Whitman 1891
“The world is a beautiful place” Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
To a Stranger Walt Whitman 1900
The Kraken Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1830
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600

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