First Line Poems Flashcards by Maranda Moore

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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks

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Dulce et decorum est

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He clasps the crag with crooked hands

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The eagle

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The old woman across the way

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The whipping

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the last night she lived

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The last night she lived

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Q

Mother deer, may I go down town

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Ballad of Birmingham

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Terrence, this is stupid stuff

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Terrence this is stupid stuff

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Q

Had he and I but met

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The man he killed

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‘Tis true, ‘this day; what though it be?

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Break of day

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Q

It’s wonderful how I jog

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Animals are passing from our lives

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Q

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions

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Mirror

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Q

In ethics class so many years ago

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Ethics

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Q

The glass has been falling all afternoon

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Storm warnings

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Q

At twenty she was brilliant and adored

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Pathedy of manners

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Q

My old mans a while old man

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Cross

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Brushing out out daughter’s brown

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35/10

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The calm

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Suicides note

Q

As virtuous men pass mildly away

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Valediction forbidding morning

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It is awkward for me and bewildering for him

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Weighing the dog

Q

The girl child was born as usual

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Barbie doll

Q

Trying to protect his students’ innocence

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The history teacher

Q

He was found by bureau of statistics to be

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Unknown citizen

Q

This is the one song everyone

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Siren song

Q

Death, be not proud though some have called thee

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Death be not proud

Q

I was angry with my friend

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A poison tree

Q

When you feel like saying something

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The most vital thing in life

Q

Maud went to college

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Sadie and maud

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I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life

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A song in the front yard

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Good catholic girl, she didn’t mind the cleaning

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Snow White and the seven deadly sins

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Whenever Richard Cory went downtown

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Richard Cory

Q

What happens to a dream deferred?

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Harlem

Q

I’ve got children to attend

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Woman work

Q

The bonsai tree

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A work of artifice