Siren's Lagoon

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

The Love for October, W.S. Merwin

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

Leila Chatti, from "I Went Out to Hear"

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

"Don’t court Loneliness", Tathev Simonyan

The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, which depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city. The Course of Empire comprises the following works: The Course of Empire – The Savage State (1); The Arcadian or Pastoral State (2); The Consummation of Empire (3); Destruction (4); and Desolation (5).

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John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3 [originally published 1667]