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167. Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster
by Robert Burns
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Adrian's Address to His Soul When Dying
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Between the form of Life and Life
by Emily Dickinson
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Defrauded I a Butterfly --
by Emily Dickinson
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Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster
by Robert Burns
"HERE lie Willie Michie’s banes;" — Robert Burns, "167. Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster"
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Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell, a Carrier, Who Died of Drunkenness
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Epitaphium
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Floss won't save you from an Abyss
by Emily Dickinson
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Forbidden Fruit A Flavor Has
by Emily Dickinson
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Fragment: A Serpent-Face
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Fragment: Death in Life
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Happy Thought
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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How Human Nature dotes
by Emily Dickinson
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If Nature smiles -- the Mother must
by Emily Dickinson
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In Horologium
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lines Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on His Election for Westminster
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Martial, Lib. I. Epig. I
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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My life has been the poem
by Henry David Thoreau
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Of Life to own --
by Emily Dickinson
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Of Nature I shall have enough
by Emily Dickinson
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Snow beneath whose chilly softness
by Emily Dickinson
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Snow flakes.
by Emily Dickinson
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So much Summer
by Emily Dickinson
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The Blossom
by William Blake
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The Butterfly's Assumption Gown
by Emily Dickinson
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The Child Is Father To The Man
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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To his Girls
by Robert Herrick
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Tradition, thou art for suckling children
by Stephen Crane
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