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Best Poems About Sacrifice.

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1 of the finest public-domain poems about sacrifice, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.

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The Falcon of Ser Federigo

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A down-and-out Italian nobleman named Ser Federigo once squandered his entire wealth in a bid to win the heart of a woman named Monna Giovanna, who ended up mar…”

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