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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
W.B. Yeats - The Second Coming
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
John Masefield - Sea Fever
I met a traveller from an antique land
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
Because I could not stop for Death –
Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for Death
Whose woods these are I think I know.
Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
Tiger Tiger, burning bright,
William Blake - The Tyger
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
Let us go then, you and I,
T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 43
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Robert Browning - My Last Duchess
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
William Wordsworth - The World Is Too Much With Us
If you can keep your head when all about you
Rudyard Kipling - If—
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
John Keats - To Autumn
April is the cruellest month,
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
I wandered lonely as a cloud
William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I sing of arms and the man,
Virgil - The Aeneid
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