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“mind” + reminder across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced any of these terms. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 1 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 3 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 6 / 162 1800s 17 / 683 1850s 10 / 939 1900s 15 / 1115 1950s 1 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 15 with this theme Show all eras

Amorphous is the mind

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Amorphous is the mind

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

I know my mind

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I know my mind

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Melancholia

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Melancholia

by Paul Laurence Dunbar · English

27 June 1872 - 9 February 1906 (~34)

Noli Me Tangere

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Noli Me Tangere

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Nonsense Rhyme

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Nonsense Rhyme

by Elinor Wylie · English

7 September 1885 - 16 December 1928 (~43)

Palace of the Babies

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Palace of the Babies

by Wallace Stevens · English

2 October 1879 - 2 August 1955 (~76)

Reminder

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Reminder

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Small hands, relinquish all

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Small hands, relinquish all

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Some things are dark

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Some things are dark

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Innovator

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The Innovator

by Stephen Vincent Benét · English

22 July 1898 - 13 March 1943 (~45)

The Philosopher

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The Philosopher

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Shepherd

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The Shepherd

by Joseph Campbell · English

15 July 1879 - 6 June 1944 (~65)

The Word

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The Word

by Edward Thomas · English

3 March 1878 - 9 April 1917 (~39)

Thoughts

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Thoughts

by Myra Viola Wilds · English

c. 1880 - c. 1935 (~55)

Time enough to rot

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Time enough to rot

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

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