Poets and Poetry Flashcards

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America the Beautiful

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Kathy Lee Bates

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Annabelle Lee

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Ariel

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Percy Bysshe Shelly

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The Art of Love

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Ovid

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Assurance

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Emily Dickinson

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The Arsenal at Springfield

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Auld Lang Syne

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Robert Burns

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Aurora Leigh

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Battle Hyme of the Republic

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Julia Ward Howe

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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John Keats

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The Bells

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Bells and Pomegranates

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Robert Browning

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The Bronze Horseman

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Alexander Pushkin

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15
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Casey at the Bat

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Ernest Thayer

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16
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The Chambered Nautilus

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The Charge of the LIght Brigade

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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18
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Chicago Poems

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Carl Sandburg

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Concord Hymn

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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20
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The Courtship of Miles Standish

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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21
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Crossing the Bar

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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22
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Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry

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Walt Whitman

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Daffodils

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William Wordsworth

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24
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Death Be Not Proud

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John Donne

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Don Juan

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Lord Byron

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Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

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Dylan Thomas

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27
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Endymion

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JOhn Keats

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28
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Thomas Gray

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29
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Evangeline

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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30
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The Faerie Queen

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Edmund Spencer

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31
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The Flowers of Evil

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Charles Baudelaire

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32
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Fod

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Carl Sandburg

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33
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Gunga Din

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Rudyard Kipling

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34
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The Harp Weaver

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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35
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Howl

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Allen Ginsberg

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36
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If

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Rudyard Kipling

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37
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I Know why the caged Bird Sings

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Maya Angelou

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38
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I Never Saw a Moor

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Emily Dickinson

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39
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Idylls of the King

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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40
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Jabberwocky

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Lewis Carroll

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41
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John Brown’s Body

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Stephen Vincent Benet

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42
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Kubla Khan

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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43
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Lady of the Lake

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Sir Walter Scott

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44
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The Lake isale at innisfree

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William Butler Yeats

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45
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The Lays of Ancient Rome

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THomas Macaulay

British Historian and Whig Politician

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46
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Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman

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47
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Little Boy Blue

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Eugene Field

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48
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A love letter to her husband

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Anne Bradstreet

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49
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Love Songs

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Sara Teasdale

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50
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Lyrical Ballads

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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51
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Mending Wall

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Robert Frost

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52
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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53
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My Last Duchess

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Robert Browning

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54
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The New Colossus

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Emma Lazarus

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55
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No Man is an Island

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John Dunne

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56
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North of Boston Collection

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Robert Frost

57
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O Captain My Captain

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Walt Whitman

58
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Ode to a Nightingale

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John Keats

59
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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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John Keats

60
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Ode on Melancholy

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John Keats

61
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Ode to a skylark

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Percy Bysshe Shelly

62
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Ode to the West Wing

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Percy Shelly

63
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Old Ironsides

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Oliver Wendel Holmes (Tribute to USS Constitution

Oldest Commissioned ship in the world still afloat – from war of 1812

64
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On HIs Blindness

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JOhn Milton

65
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Robert Browning

66
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Pippa Passes

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Robert Browning

67
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The Pisan Cantos

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Ezra Pound

68
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Prometheus Unbound

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Percey Shelley

69
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The Rape of the Lock

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Alexander Pope

70
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The Raven

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Edgar Allen Poe

71
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

72
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The Road Not Taken

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Robert Frost

73
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The Road to Mandalay

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Rudyard Kipling

74
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Rubaiyat

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Omar Khayyam

75
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She Walks in Beauty

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Lord Byron

76
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Snowbound

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John Greenleaf Whittier

77
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The Song of Hiawatha

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

78
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Song of Myself

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Walt Whitman

79
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Songs of Experience

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William Blake

80
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Songs of Innocense

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William Blake

81
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Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

82
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Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters

83
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Robert Frost

84
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Strange Victory

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Sara Teasdale

85
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Tales of Wayside Inn

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

86
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Tambourlaine

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Edgar Allan Poe

87
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Tam O’Shanter

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Robert Burns

88
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Thanatopsis

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William Cullen Bryant

89
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There will Come soft rains

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Sara Teasdale

90
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Trees

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Joyce Kilmer

91
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Tinturn Abbey

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William Wordsworth

92
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To Autumn

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John Keats

93
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To a Mouse

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Robert Burns

94
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To a Louse

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Robert Burns

95
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To a Skylark

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Percy Shelly

96
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To Helen

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Edgar Allen Poe

97
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To his coy mistress

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Andrew Marvell

98
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The Tiger

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William Blake

99
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Under Milkwood

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Dylan Thomas

100
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The Village Blacksmith

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Henry Wadswroth Longfellow

101
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A visit from St. Nicholas

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Clement Moore

102
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The Walrus and the Carpenter

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Lewis Carroll

103
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The Waste Land

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T.S. Eliot

104
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What’s O’Clock

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Amy Lowell

105
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When the Frost is on the punkin

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James Whitcomb Riley

106
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The Wild Swans at Coole

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William Butler Yeats

107
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A Witness Tree

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Robert Frost

108
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The Wreck of the Hesperus

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Henry W. Longfellow

109
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Earliest Known Poem, 3rd Millennium BC, Mesopotamia

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

110
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Persian Poet (11th Century)

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Omar Khayyam

111
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A Second Johnson

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

112
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American Colonies First Female Poet

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Anne Bradstreet

113
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Poet Known as Old Possum

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TS Eliot

114
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The Ode Poet, Died at Age 25

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John Keats

115
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Ploughman Poet or The Scottish Poet

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Robert Burns

116
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Lake Poet

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William Wordsworth

117
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Poets Buried in Same Roman Cemetery

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John Keats and PB Shelly

118
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Mussolini’s Friend who died in an asylum

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Ezra Pound

119
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Poet who used only lower case letters

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ee cummings

120
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The Lincoln Poet

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Carl Sandburg

Wrote a famous bio of Lincoln

121
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Percival Lowell’s sister

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Amy Lowell

An astronomer

122
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New Hampshire or New England Poet

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Robert Frost

123
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Quaker Poet

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John Greenleaf Whittier

124
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Welsh Poet

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Dylan Thomas

125
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Limerick Writer, 1870s

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Edward Lear

126
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Limerick Writer for the New Yorker

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Ogden Nash

127
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The Harlem Poet

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Langston Hughes

128
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The Alter Poet

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George Herbert

Was also Anglican Priest

129
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The belle of Amherts

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Emily Dickinson

130
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First US Poet Laureat

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Robert Penn Warren

131
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Poet who read to JFK’s inauguration

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Robert Frost

132
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Poet who read at Clinton’s inauguration

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Maya Angelou

133
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Poet of the Beat Generation

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Allen Ginsberg

134
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Canadian Poets School

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School of Montreal

135
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Number of Lines in a Sonnet

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14

136
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Japanese 3-line poem

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Haiku

137
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Number of Syllables in Haiku

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Seventeen

138
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Edda Poetry comes from this country

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Iceland