1. "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare
Traditional beauty is overrated
2. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
by Christopher Marlowe
Love is expressed through the material
3. "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne
Everlasting life is more powerful than death.
4. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
by Robert Herrick
It is important to marry before time takes away youth and beauty.
5. "The Author to Her Book" by Anne
Bradstreet
One's own creations can be looked upon with disappointment.
6. "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew
Marvell
Time ends love.
7. "Sound and Sense" by Alexander Pope
Writing should be simple to a learned mind.
8. "The World is Too Much With Us" by
William Wordsworth
Humanity needs to be aware of nature.
9. "She Walks in Beauty" by George
Gordon, Lord Byron
Beauty is found in innocence.
10. "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Power does not stay in one place forever.
11. "When I have Fears that I may Cease to
Be" by John Keats
Love and fame have little value in life.
12. "The Children's Hour" by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
The child-like emotions of children are infectious.
14. "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe
Love can be both uplifting and damaging.
15. "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt
Whitman
The spoils of a journey are not always enjoyed.
Death is quiet
17. "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
Humanity is ignorant is to what is right.
Death during a war is another life lost.
People like to be separated by walls.
Mirror show true reflections.
