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From “A Season in Hell [Delirium I]” Arthur Rimbaud 1920
My Love Must Be As Free Henry David Thoreau 1943
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
Golden Anniversary Wisława Szymborska 2016
The Thread of Life Christina Rossetti 1881
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Randall Jarrell 1969
A Cry from an Indian Wife Emily Pauline Johnson 1900
[O But My Delicate Lover] Sappho 1907
Kink Imani Davis 2023
The Aim Was Song Robert Frost 1921
Change on Change Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1846
Fire-Flowers Emily Pauline Johnson 1903
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1842
Flower-Gathering Robert Frost 2018
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
In the Absence of Sparrows Daniel Johnson 2014
Life Joe Brainard 2012
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Lines: 'When the Lamp is Shattered' Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824

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