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“presence” across the centuries

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

pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 0 / 162 1800s 16 / 683 1850s 18 / 939 1900s 26 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 26 with this theme Show all eras

A Ghost

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A Ghost

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

A Lonely Place

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A Lonely Place

by Edward Shanks · English

11 June 1892 - 4 May 1953 (~61)

A Song of Five

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A Song of Five

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Antigonish

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Antigonish

by William Hughes Mearns · English

28 September 1875 - 13 March 1965 (~90)

Apparition

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Apparition

by Yone Noguchi · English

8 December 1875 - 13 July 1947 (~72)

Conscience and Remorse

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Conscience and Remorse

by Paul Laurence Dunbar · English

27 June 1872 - 9 February 1906 (~34)

Dirt and Not Copper

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Dirt and Not Copper

by Gertrude Stein · English

3 February 1874 - 27 July 1946 (~72)

Iseult of Ireland

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Iseult of Ireland

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Joan o' the Wad

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Joan o' the Wad

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Live blindly and upon the hour

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Live blindly and upon the hour

by Trumbull Stickney · English

20 June 1874 - 11 October 1904 (~30)

Longing

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Longing

by Paul Laurence Dunbar · English

27 June 1872 - 9 February 1906 (~34)

May Eve

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May Eve

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Music I Heard

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Music I Heard

by Conrad Aiken · English

5 August 1889 - 17 August 1973 (~84)

My words that once were virtuous

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My words that once were virtuous

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Not, to me, less lavish

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Not, to me, less lavish

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

November Night

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November Night

by Adelaide Crapsey · English

9 September 1878 - 8 October 1914 (~36)

Old Song

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Old Song

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Once, In the Dim Wood

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Once, In the Dim Wood

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

Romance

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Romance

by Witter Bynner · English

10 August 1881 - 1 June 1968 (~87)

Sickness

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Sickness

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Silently she’s combing

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Silently she’s combing

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Spectres

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Spectres

by Emanuel Morgan · English

1916 - 1917 (~1)

The Dream

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The Dream

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Little Ghost

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The Little Ghost

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

The Vagrant

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The Vagrant

by Mary Webb · English

25 March 1881 - 8 October 1927 (~46)

Vivien

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Vivien

by Alan Seeger · English

22 June 1888 - 4 July 1916 (~28)

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