Ode to a Nightingale By John Keats

Barbara Allen by Anonymous (17th century)

On the Death of Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë

The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross translated by David Lewis

Hope by Emily Brontë

experimental: O Me! O Life! By Walt Whitman

O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman

Love Letters: Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Bosie Douglas

Love Letters: Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert

Love Letters: Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine

Love Letters: Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet

Making Life Worthwhile by George Eliot

Revenge By Eliza Acton

Written on the Banks of the Arun by Charlotte Smith

Letter VI (excerpt) from Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft

Immortal Beloved by Ludwig van Beethoven

SPECIAL EPISODE: A Poet’s Advice to Students by ee cummings

Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale

To The Moon by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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