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"All the world's a stage" from As You Like It (excerpt)

by William Shakespeare

MonologueMortalityReflection
Poetry
211 words

"To be, or not to be" from Hamlet (excerpt)

by William Shakespeare

MortalityPhilosophyExistence
Poetry
255 words

'Hope' is the thing with feathers

by Emily Dickinson

HopeOptimismNature
Poetry
84 words

2nd Paragraph of the Declaration of Independence

by Thomas Jefferson

Historical DocumentsAmerica's FoundingAmerica
Miscellaneous
267 words

A Birthday

by Christina Rossetti

LoveJoyCelebrationNature
Poetry
107 words

A Christmas Carol

by Christina Rossetti

ChristmasLoveFaithChildren
Poetry
63 words

A Dream Within a Dream

by Edgar Allen Poe

MelancholyDreamsPhilosophyDeath
Poetry
144 words

A Lady

by Amy Lowell

FemininityEleganceImagismRomanticismEphemeral
Poetry
87 words

A Noiseless Patient Spider

by Walt Whitman

LonelinessSoulConnection
Poetry
86 words

A Poison Tree

by William Blake

ExperienceRelationshipsMoralityAngerDeception
Poetry
101 words

A Song for Occupations

by Walt Whitman

LaborOccupationsWork
Poetry
59 words

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

by John Donne

LoveSeparationConceitMarriageCompass
Poetry
234 words

A Word Made Flesh Is Seldom

by Emily Dickinson

CommunicationNuance
Poetry
90 words

Advent

by Christina Rossetti

AdventFaithWatchfulnessChildren
Poetry
95 words

Affliction (I)

by George Herbert

StruggleFaithSufferingDevotion
Poetry
481 words

Alone

by Edgar Allen Poe

AlienationSolitudeDarknessChildhood
Poetry
140 words

And did those feet in ancient time

by William Blake

VisionReligionMythPatriotism
Poetry
97 words

Annabel Lee

by Edgar Allen Poe

LoveDeathLossRomanticism
Poetry
297 words

Aubade

by Amy Lowell

LoveImagismDesireMinimalistNature
Poetry
38 words

Auguries of Innocence

by William Blake

NatureJusticeVisionInnocence
Poetry
93 words
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