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		<title>What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” reflects on memory, loss, and the quiet ache of vanished love.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sonnets from the Portuguese (43)</title>
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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>The World Is Too Much With Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bracing sonnet against distraction and commerce — Wordsworth pleads for a restored capacity to see the world as sacred.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ozymandias</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shelley’s “Ozymandias” unveils the ruins of empire and the irony of power’s impermanence beneath desert sands.]]></description>
		
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		<title>On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Milton’s Sonnet XIX reframes vocation through patience: “They also serve who only stand and wait.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Frost’s sonnet “Design” frames beauty and predation to ask whether darkness, not benevolence, orders nature’s smallest scenes.]]></description>
		
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