Poetry Given the Quote Give the Author Flashcards
The mind is its own place, and in itself/Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n
Milton
Full fathom five thy father lies
Shakespeare
If you can keep your head when all about you
Kipling
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If music be the food of love, play on
Shakespeare
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
Shakespeare
What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare
W.H. Davies
The moving finger writes; and, having writ,/Moves on
Edward Fitzgerald
They also serve who only stand and wait
Milton
The quality of mercy is not strained
Shakespeare
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
Coleridge
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summers day
Shakespeare
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Keats
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas
Busy old fool, unruly sun
John Donne
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Auden
Human kind/Cannot bear very much reality
T.S. Eliot
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo
Shakespeare
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Shakespeare
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Gertrude Stein
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
Jenny Joseph
I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Hope springs eternal in the human breast
Alexander Pope
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
Shakespeare
I grow old… I grow old…/I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled
T.S. Eliot
The time has come’, the Walrus said,/’To talk of many things’
Lewis Carroll
A narrow fellow in the grass
Emily Dickinson
Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all
Keats
To be or not to be: that is the question
Shakespeare
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
John McCrae
The proper study of mankind is man
Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing
Alexander Pope
But at my back I always hear/Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near
Marvell
Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker
Ogden Nash
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Shakespeare
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
W.B. Yeats
Because I could not stop for death/He kindly stopped for me
Emily Dickinson
Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all
Tennyson
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
Shelley
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Tennyson
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
W.B. Yeats
This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper
T.S. Eliot
And miles to go before I sleep
Robert Frost
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Wordsworth
The child is father of the man
Wordsworth
I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul
William Ernest Henley
To err is human; to forgive, divine
Alexander Pope
