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Poetry - poems Flashcards

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Whoso list to hunt, I know ehere is an hind…

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Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt. Rennaissance.

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Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay I have done, you get no more of me…

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Michael Drayton: Since there’s no help”. Rennaisance.

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License my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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John Donne: Going to bed. Rennaisance.

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O mistress mine! Where are you roaming: O! Stay and hear; your true love’s coming…

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Shakespeare. Trochaic tetrameter.

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is a-flying…

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Robert Herrick: To virgins make much of time. 1600’s.

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Who will fairest book of nature know / How virtue may best lodg’d in beauty be…

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Sir Philip Sidney: From Astrophel and Stella (1591). His book of a 100 sonnets.

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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away…

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Edmund Spenser: From Amoretti. 1500’s

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My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun…

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Shakespeare: from Sonnets (1609)

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Me-thinks already, from this chymic flame / I see a city of more preciius mold…

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John Dryden: from Annus Mirabilis (1666)

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All my past life is mine no more / The flying hours are gone….

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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: Love and Life. Late 1600’s.

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As virtous men pass midly away, and whisper to their souls to go…

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John Donne: A valediction: forbiddning mourning.

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Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime…

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Andrew Marvell: To his Coy mistress. Late 1600’s

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When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide…

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John Milton, 1600’s

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man…

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Alexander Pope: An essay on man in four epistles. 1700’s

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I wander thro each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow…

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William Blake: London. 1794.

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Earth has not anything to show more fair: dull would he be of soul who could pass by…

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William Wordsworth: Composed upon westminister bridge, 1802.

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Much have i travelled in the realms of gold…

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John Keats: On first looking into Chapman’s Homer. 1816.

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O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn’s being…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ode to the West Wind. 1819

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His broad clear brow in sunlight glow’d; on burnish’d hooves his war-horse trode…

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The lady of shalott (his version of legends about King Arthur). Victorian period.

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Half a league, half a leauge / half a league onward, all in the valley of death…

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Alfred, Lord Tennysonn: from The charge of light brigade. About a big loss in the Crimean war.

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I sometimes hold it half a sin / to put in words the grief I feel…

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In memoriam A.H.H.
About the loss of his best friend and brother in law Athur Hallam.

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Sunset and evening star, / And one clear call for me….

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Crossing the bar. His final poem.

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Will sprawl now that the heat of day is best, flat on his belly in the pit’s much mire…

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Robert Browning: Caliban upon Setebos. Victorian. About colonizing.

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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe…

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Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky (from through the looking glass). Nonsense verse!

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Jenny kissed me when we met, jumping from the chair se sat in…

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Leigh Hunt: Rondeau. Victorian.

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

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portugese. Victorian.

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That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall…

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Robert Browning: My last duchess. Victorian. Dramatic monologue.

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Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end…

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Christina Rossetti: Uphill. Victorian.

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The sea is calm to-night. /The tide is full, the moon lies fair..

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Matthew Arnold: Dover beach. Victorian.

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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaiming it on you…

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Rudyard Kippling: If.
Victorian

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April is the crullest month, breeding lilcas out of the dead land…

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T.S Eliot: The waste land (1922)

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If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

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Rupert Brooke: The soldier. Written in 1914.

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(extract from inferno)
Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table.

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T.S Eliot: The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock. 1915.

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About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters…

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W.H. Auden: Musee des beaux arts. 1900’s. Brussels. About the flemish masters.

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They fuck you up, your mum an dad….

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Philip Larkin: This be the verse. 1971.

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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks…

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Wilfred Owen: Dulce et decorum est. published post mortem in 1920.

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