Historical clue formulations

• Classic poem with the lines "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear" — 2025-05-24
• Classic poem whose subject is "a black ocean, leaping and wide" — 2024-08-02
• Classic Maya Angelou poem … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues and the circled letters, in two different ways — 2023-09-11
• Classic poem with the lines "Did you want to see me broken? / Bowed head and lowered eyes?" — 2019-08-17