Poetry Given the Quote Give the Author Flashcards

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The mind is its own place, and in itself/Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n

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Milton

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2
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Full fathom five thy father lies

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Shakespeare

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3
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If you can keep your head when all about you

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Kipling

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4
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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5
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If music be the food of love, play on

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Shakespeare

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6
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

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Shakespeare

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7
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What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare

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W.H. Davies

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8
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The moving finger writes; and, having writ,/Moves on

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Edward Fitzgerald

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9
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They also serve who only stand and wait

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Milton

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10
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The quality of mercy is not strained

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Shakespeare

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11
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

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Coleridge

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12
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

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Shakespeare

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13
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Shall I compare thee to a summers day

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Shakespeare

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14
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

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Keats

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15
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever

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Keats

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16
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Do not go gentle into that good night

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Dylan Thomas

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17
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Busy old fool, unruly sun

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John Donne

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18
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

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Auden

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19
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Human kind/Cannot bear very much reality

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T.S. Eliot

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20
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O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo

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Shakespeare

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21
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks

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Shakespeare

22
Q

The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est

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Wilfred Owen

23
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

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Gertrude Stein

24
Q

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple

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Jenny Joseph

25
Q

I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.

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Joyce Kilmer

26
Q

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

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Alexander Pope

27
Q

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes

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Shakespeare

28
Q

I grow old… I grow old…/I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

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T.S. Eliot

29
Q

The time has come’, the Walrus said,/’To talk of many things’

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Lewis Carroll

30
Q

A narrow fellow in the grass

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Emily Dickinson

31
Q

Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all

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Keats

32
Q

To be or not to be: that is the question

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Shakespeare

33
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow

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John McCrae

34
Q

The proper study of mankind is man

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Alexander Pope

35
Q

A little learning is a dangerous thing

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Alexander Pope

36
Q

But at my back I always hear/Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near

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Marvell

37
Q

Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker

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Ogden Nash

38
Q

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

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Shakespeare

39
Q

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

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W.B. Yeats

40
Q

Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me

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Emily Dickinson

41
Q

Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all

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Tennyson

42
Q

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

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Shelley

43
Q

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

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Tennyson

44
Q

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

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W.B. Yeats

45
Q

This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper

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T.S. Eliot

46
Q

And miles to go before I sleep

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Robert Frost

47
Q

I wandered lonely as a cloud

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Wordsworth

48
Q

The child is father of the man

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Wordsworth

49
Q

I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul

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William Ernest Henley

50
Q

To err is human; to forgive, divine

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Alexander Pope