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Title Author Year
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Basho 1690
"The world is a beautiful place" Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017
On Death Kahlil Gibran 1923
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 2017
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman 1891
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe 2018
And death shall have no dominion Dylan Thomas 1943
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger 1917
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* Countee Cullen 1925
Grandpa Diana Marie Delgado 2021
Wanting to Die Anne Sexton 1981
[since feeling is first] E. E. Cummings 1926
Because I could not stop for Death (479) Emily Dickinson 1951
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe 1849
In a Disused Graveyard Robert Frost 2023
Audience Maritza N. Estrada 2023
Humility Mark Gibbons 2021
The Systemic J. Estanislao Lopez 2023

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