“Passing” — Christina Rossetti

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A Scholar Seated at a Table with Books — Rembrandt

We shall enjoy it (Sappho)

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“The Poet as Outlaw” — Harry Mathews

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“Dirge for Two Veterans” — Walt Whitman

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“Prayer to Persephone” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Robert Frost’s Handwritten Manuscript for “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Document via the Library of Congress.

“Literary Criticism” — Flann O’Brien

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“They shut me up in Prose–” — Emily Dickinson

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“Happy Ending” — W.H. Auden

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T.S. Eliot’s Handwritten Manuscript for “Virginia”

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Red river, red river,
Slow flow heat is silence
No will is still as a river
Still. Will heat move
Only through the mocking-bird
Heard once? Still hills
Wait. Gates wait. Purple trees,
White trees, wait, wait,
Delay, decay. Living, living,
Never moving. Ever moving
Iron thoughts came with me
And go with me:
Red river, river, river.

 

(Via).

“To Some Ladies” — John Keats

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The dirtiest book (Ezra Pound)

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“The Suicide’s Argument” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“After Death” — Christina Rossetti

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“There was an Old Man with a beard” (Edward Lear Limerick)

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“Upon the first of May” (The Milkmaid)

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