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		<title>The Flea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Donne’s “The Flea” turns a biting insect into a daring metaphor for love and seduction, blending wit, irony, and metaphysical depth.]]></description>
		
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		<title>To His Coy Mistress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” transforms seduction into philosophy, urging lovers to seize life before time and death prevail.]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>When I Was One-and-Twenty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A. E. Housman’s “When I Was One-and-Twenty” reflects on youth, love, and regret through simple, lyrical verse.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remember</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[christina rossetti]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A tender sonnet that weighs remembrance against the kindness of letting go.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Annabel Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lyrical elegy of love and loss in a kingdom by the sea.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sonnets from the Portuguese (43)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 explores the depth and endurance of love that transcends both time and death.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Love and a Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A stranger’s arrival tests a bridegroom’s compassion and fidelity in Frost’s haunting moral parable “Love and a Question.”]]></description>
		
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