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How are you feeling?
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare · 1609
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
★★★★★Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art
John Keats · 1819
“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot · 1915
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1818
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
From the Portuguese. "Tu MI Chamas". Another Version
George Gordon, Lord Byron · 1806
“Say rather I'm your Soul; more just that name”
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas · 1951
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Move Eastward, Happy Earth
Lord Alfred Tennyson · 1830
“Move eastward, happy Earth, and leave / Yon orange sunset waning slow”
Wild Geese
Mary Oliver · 1986
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.”
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus · 1883
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost · 1916
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both.”
The Waste Land (Opening)
T.S. Eliot · 1922
“April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land.”
Success is counted sweetest
Emily Dickinson · 1878
“Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed.”
The stem of a departed Flower
Emily Dickinson · 1945
“The stem of a departed Flower / Has still a silent rank.”