From “An Essay on Criticism”

by Alexander Pope

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To His Coy Mistress

by Andrew Marvell

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A Ritual to Read to Each Other

by William Stafford

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Advice to a Prophet

by Richard Wilbur

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Poetry

by Marianne Moore.

The Plot Against the Giant

by Wallace Stevens

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I felt a funeral in my brain

by Emily Dickinson

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