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Sep 26, 2026
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Sara Teasdale put it in eight lines in 1915, and she never once pretended it was the kisses she remembered.
Sep 24, 2026
Christina Rossetti had already ended one engagement. In November she sat down and wrote the day her life actually began.
Sep 21, 2026
Emily Dickinson, around 1862. A poem she sewed into a little booklet and kept private.
Sep 19, 2026
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850. The first sonnet she hid in a drawer.
Sep 17, 2026
Christina Rossetti, 1862. She asked for a throne.
Sep 14, 2026
Chekhov, 1899. Two people who found the real thing after they had stopped expecting it.
