Can You Finish the Famous Lines From the Poems We All Memorized in School?
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Robert Frost: Two Roads Diverged In A Yellow Wood And Sorry I Could Not...
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Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon A Midnight Dreary While I Pondered Weak And...
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William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud That Floats On High O'er...
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Joyce Kilmer: I Think That I Shall Never See A Poem Lovely As A...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The...
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Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain! Our Fearful Trip Is...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Listen My Children And You Shall Hear Of The Midnight Ride Of...
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Clement Clarke Moore: Twas The Night Before Christmas When All Through The...
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John McCrae: In Flanders Fields The Poppies...
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William Shakespeare: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's...
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Alfred Lord Tennyson: Into The Valley Of Death Rode The...
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William Blake: Tyger! Tyger! Burning...
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Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop For Death He Kindly Stopped For...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: By The Shores Of Gitche Gumee By The Shining Big-Sea...
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Lewis Carroll: Twas Brillig And The Slithy Toves Did Gyre And Gimble In The...
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John Keats: A Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy For...
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Rudyard Kipling: If You Can Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Water Water Every Where Nor Any Drop To...
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Robert Frost: The Woods Are Lovely Dark And Deep But I Have Promises To...
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William Ernest Henley: I Am The Master Of My Fate I Am The Captain Of My...
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Emma Lazarus: Give Me Your Tired Your Poor Your Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe...
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Home Is The Sailor Home From Sea And The Hunter Home From The...
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Alfred Lord Tennyson: To Strive To Seek To Find And Not To...
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Edward Lear: The Owl And The Pussy-Cat Went To Sea In A Beautiful Pea-Green...
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Lord Byron: She Walks In Beauty Like The...
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Robert Burns: My Love Is Like A Red Red...
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Ernest Lawrence Thayer: But There Is No Joy In Mudville Mighty Casey Has Struck...
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William Butler Yeats: I Will Arise And Go Now And Go To...
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Robert Frost: Nature's First Green Is Gold Her Hardest Hue To...
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Thomas Gray: The Curfew Tolls The Knell Of Parting...
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Robert Herrick: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Under The Spreading Chestnut Tree The Village Smithy...
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Edgar Allan Poe: For The Moon Never Beams Without Bringing Me Dreams Of The Beautiful...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Here Once The Embattled Farmers Stood And Fired The Shot Heard Round The...
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William Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold A Rainbow In The...
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John Milton: Sing Heavenly Muse That On The Secret Top Of Oreb Or Of...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: My Name Is Ozymandias King Of Kings Look On My Works Ye Mighty And...
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Alfred Noyes: The Wind Was A Torrent Of Darkness Among The Gusty...
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John Keats: Thou Still Unravished Bride Of Quietness Thou Foster-Child Of Silence And Slow...
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Sir Walter Scott: Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To...
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William Shakespeare: All The World's A Stage And All The Men And Women Merely...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: Ay Tear Her Tattered Ensign Down Long Has It Waved On...
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Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest By Those Who Ne'er...
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Robert Browning: The Lark's On The Wing The Snail's On The Thorn God's In His Heaven All's Right With The...
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Edgar Guest: It Takes A Heap O' Livin' In A House T' Make It...
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John Masefield: I Must Down To The Seas Again To The Lonely Sea And The...
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Walt Whitman: I Celebrate Myself And Sing...
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Francis Scott Key: Oh Say Does That Star-Spangled Banner Yet...
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Lord Byron: Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer For Other's Weal Availed On...
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William Cowper: God Moves In A Mysterious Way His Wonders To...
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Matthew Arnold: The Sea Is Calm Tonight The Tide Is Full The Moon Lies Fair Upon The...
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Christina Rossetti: Who Has Seen The Wind? Neither I Nor...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I Shot An Arrow Into The Air It Fell To Earth I Knew Not...
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Oscar Wilde: And All Men Kill The Thing They Love By All Let This Be...
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Stephen Crane: A Man Said To The Universe Sir I...
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William Blake: To See A World In A Grain Of Sand And A Heaven In A Wild...
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John Greenleaf Whittier: For Of All Sad Words Of Tongue Or Pen The Saddest Are These It Might Have...
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Robert Browning: Grow Old Along With Me! The Best Is Yet To...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: He Prayeth Best Who Loveth Best All Things Both Great And...
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Edward FitzGerald: The Moving Finger Writes And Having Writ Moves...
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Travel Both
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Walk Both
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Go Both
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See Both
Robert Frost wrote this famous poem in 1915 to reflect on the choices people make in their lives.
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Bleary
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Weary
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Dreary
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Teary
Edgar Allan Poe published this haunting masterpiece in 1845 and it remains a staple of American gothic literature.
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Greenery Still
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Vales And Hills
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Mountain Rills
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Meadow Lands
Wordsworth wrote this poem about daffodils to celebrate the healing power of nature and his own joyful memories.
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Sea
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Bee
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Knee
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Tree
Kilmer was an American poet who died in World War One and this short poem remains his legacy.
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Times
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Days
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Stars
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Ways
This Victorian poet wrote forty-four sonnets to her husband Robert Browning to express her deep and eternal love.
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Gone
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Won
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Done
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Run
Whitman wrote this famous elegy in 1865 to mourn the death of President Abraham Lincoln after the war.
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Paul Revere
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Samuel Adams
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John Hancock
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William Dawes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this historical poem to remind Americans of their heroic past during a difficult time.
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Room
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Halls
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Town
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House
This classic holiday poem was originally published anonymously in 1823 and helped shape the modern image of Santa.
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Flow
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Show
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Grow
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Blow
McCrae was a Canadian physician who wrote this poem after losing a friend during the Second Battle of Ypres.
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Song
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Rose
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Eve
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Day
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets and this particular one is perhaps the most famous and beloved of them all.
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Light Brigade
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Six Hundred
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Noble Soldiers
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Six Million
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote this poem to honor the brave British cavalrymen who fought in the Crimean War.
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Night
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Bright
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White
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Light
This poem from Songs of Experience explores the dual nature of creation and the ferocity found in the world.
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Them
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All
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You
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Me
Dickinson was a prolific poet who lived a quiet life and wrote many profound verses about mortality and eternity.
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Water
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Deep
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Lake
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River
Longfellow wrote The Song of Hiawatha in 1855 using the rhythmic style of an ancient Finnish epic poem.
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Wabe
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Grass
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Sky
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Tree
Carroll included this famous nonsense poem in Through the Looking-Glass to show how sounds can create vivid imagery.
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Life
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Ever
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Always
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Men
Keats was a major Romantic poet who believed that beauty provides a constant source of happiness for the soul.
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Them
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Theirs
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Hope
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Control
Kipling wrote this inspirational poem in 1895 as a set of rules for living with integrity and stoic courage.
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Think
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Drink
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Blink
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Sink
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells a long story of a sailor who is cursed after slaying an albatross.
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Seek
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Reap
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Sleep
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Keep
This famous closing stanza emphasizes the weight of duty and the long journey still ahead for the weary traveler.
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Soul
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Ship
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Goal
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Role
Henley wrote this poem while recovering from surgery to express his indomitable spirit and refusal to give up hope.
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Near
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Clear
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Free
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Here
This poem is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty to welcome immigrants to the United States.
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Still
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Hill
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Field
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Mill
Stevenson wrote this poem as his own epitaph to reflect his desire for a peaceful and simple final rest.
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Fail
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Cry
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Yield
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Die
These final lines from Ulysses celebrate the eternal human desire for adventure and discovery regardless of old age.
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Boat
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Float
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Ship
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Coat
Lear was famous for his literary nonsense and this charming poem tells the story of an unlikely animal romance.
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Sight
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Light
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Bright
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Night
Byron wrote this poem in 1814 after being inspired by the sight of a beautiful woman at a party.
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Tune
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Fire
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Rose
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Heat
Burns is the national poet of Scotland and this famous song expresses the timeless nature of deep romantic love.
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Out
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Home
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Down
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Hard
This classic American poem captures the dramatic tension and ultimate disappointment of a high-stakes game of baseball.
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The Sea
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My Home
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Innisfree
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Old Rome
Yeats wrote this poem to express his longing for a quiet and simple life in the Irish countryside.
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Mold
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Hold
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Bold
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Fold
This short poem suggests that beauty and youth are fleeting moments that we must cherish while they still last.
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May
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Play
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Way
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Day
Gray wrote this elegy in a country churchyard to reflect on the lives of ordinary people buried in graves.
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Stay
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Can
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Play
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May
This famous carpe diem poem encourages young people to make the most of their time before it passes away.
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Bands
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Hands
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Lands
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Stands
Longfellow describes the honest work and physical strength of a local blacksmith in this very popular American poem.
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Mary Lee
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Annabel Lee
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Sarah B
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Emily Free
Poe wrote this hauntingly beautiful poem about the death of a young woman who was his one true love.
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Woods
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State
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World
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Field
Emerson wrote the Concord Hymn to commemorate the first battle of the American Revolution at the Old North Bridge.
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Bye
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High
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Sky
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Eye
Wordsworth believed that the wonder of nature should be felt with the same intensity throughout a person's whole life.
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Sinai
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High
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The Sky
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Rome
Milton begins his epic poem Paradise Lost by calling upon a divine spirit to help him tell his story.
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Prepare
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Beware
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Declare
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Despair
Shelley wrote this poem about the ruins of a great king to show that even powerful empires eventually crumble.
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Leas
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Trees
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Seas
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Bees
The Highwayman is a narrative poem that tells a tragic story of love and betrayal in the English countryside.
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Rhyme
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Prime
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Climb
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Time
Keats wrote this ode to an ancient Greek vase to explore the relationship between art and eternal human truth.
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Achieve
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Receive
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Believe
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Deceive
This famous couplet from the poem Marmion warns about the complicated consequences that follow after telling a single lie.
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Singers
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Strangers
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Players
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Actors
This famous monologue from the play As You Like It compares the different stages of human life to theater.
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Sea
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Sky
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Fly
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High
Old Ironsides was written to save the USS Constitution from being scrapped and it became a very famous poem.
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Recede
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Proceed
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Succeed
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Indeed
Dickinson suggests that those who fail understand the true value of victory more than those who win all the time.
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Life
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World
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Earth
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Day
This cheerful verse from the play Pippa Passes expresses a sense of optimism and divine order in the universe.
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Alone
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Grown
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Home
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Rome
Guest was known as the People's Poet because he wrote sentimental verses about the simple joys of family life.
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Sky
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Eye
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High
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Ply
Masefield was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and wrote this poem to express his deep love for sailing.
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Again
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Along
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Away
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Myself
Whitman began his collection Leaves of Grass with this poem to celebrate the individual human spirit and the body.
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Grave
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Brave
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Save
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Wave
Key wrote these famous words after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of Eighteen Twelve period.
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Bye
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High
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Sigh
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Sky
Byron was a leading figure in the Romantic movement and wrote many poems about deep emotion and personal longing.
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Inform
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Perform
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Conform
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Reform
Cowper wrote this hymn to express his faith and belief that divine providence is at work in the world.
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Gates
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Straits
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Plates
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States
Arnold wrote Dover Beach to reflect on the loss of religious faith in the modern world during the Victorian era.
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Me
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Them
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You
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Two
Rossetti wrote this simple but profound poem for children to describe the invisible yet powerful forces of the natural world.
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Here
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Where
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There
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Near
This famous poem explores the idea that our words and actions can have lasting effects that we might never see.
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Birds
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Word
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Third
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Heard
Wilde wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol after his own imprisonment to describe the harsh realities of prison life.
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Persist
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Exist
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Resist
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Insist
Crane was a prominent realist writer who wrote this short poem to explore the indifference of nature toward human life.
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Tower
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Power
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Flower
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Shower
Blake believed that the infinite beauty of the universe could be found within the smallest details of the natural world.
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Seen
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Been
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Clean
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Win
Whittier wrote this line in the poem Maud Muller to express the regret people feel over missed opportunities in life.
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Be
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Free
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Key
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See
Browning wrote Rabbi Ben Ezra to encourage people to embrace aging as a time of wisdom and spiritual growth.
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Fall
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All
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Small
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Tall
The Ancient Mariner concludes with this lesson about the importance of showing love and respect for all living creatures.
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On
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Down
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Along
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Gone
This verse from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam suggests that time is irreversible and we cannot change the past.
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Step back into your childhood classroom and test your memory of the classic verses you once knew by heart. From Frost to Poe; these timeless lines defined an era of education and still resonate with beauty and wisdom today.
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