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title: The Eagle: A Fragment
famous line: "He watches from the mountain walls.And like a thunderbolt he falls."
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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title: She Dwelt Among Us the Untrodden Ways
famous line: "She lived alone, and few could know/When Lucy ceased to be/But she is in grave, and, oh,/The difference to me!"
-wrote famous book with friend "Lyrical Ballads"
William Wordsworth
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title: The Poison Tree
famous line: "I was angry with my friend:/I told my wrath, my wrath did/end./I was angry with my foe:/I told it not, my wrath did/grow."
William Blake
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title: The Tyger
famous line: 1.) "Tyger!Tyger! burning bright in the forests of the night." 2.) "Did he who made the lamb make thee?"
William Blake
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title: Death Be Not Proud
famous line: "Death be not proud,/though some have called/thee. Mighty and/Dreadful, for thou art not/so."
John Donne
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title: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleight
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title: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
famous line: "Come live with me here and be my love."
Christopher Marlowe
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title: Fire and Ice
famous line: "My love is like to ice, and I to fire:"
Edmund Spencer
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title: When In Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes
famous line:1.)"When in disgrace with fortune & in men's eyes/ I all alone beweep my outcast state/And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries/And look upon myself and curse my fate" 2.) "For thy sweet remembered such wealth brings/That I scorn to change state with kings"
William Shakespeare
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title: To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars
famous line: "I would not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more
Richard Lovelace
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title: To Althea from Prison
famous lines: "Stone Walls do not a prison make/Nor iron bars a cage;"
Richard Lovelace
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title: On His Blindness
famous line: "When I considered how my life is spent"
John Milton
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title:To A Mouse
famous line: "The best laid schemes of mice and men/Often go askew.And leave nothing but grief and pain/For promised joy!"
Robert Burns
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title:Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments
famous line: 1.)"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit the impediments/Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds/Or bends with the mover to remove." 2.) "If this be error and upon me proved/Inever writ, nor no man ever loved."
William Shakespeare
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title:How Do I Love Thee
famous line: 1.)"How do I love thee?/Let me count the ways." 2.) "I shall love thee better after death"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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title:Is My Team Plowing
famous line: "Yes, lad I lie easy/I lie as lads would choose,/ I cheer a dead man's sweetheart/Never ask me whose"
A.E. Houseman
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title:When I Was One and Twenty
famous line: 1.)"When I was one and twenty/I heard a wise man say,/'Give Crowns and pounds and guineas/But not your heart away'" 2.)"And I am two-and-twenty/And oh 'tis true, 'tis true"
A.E. Houseman
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title:If Thou Must Love Me
famous line:"If thou must love me/Let it be for nought/Except for love's sake only."
Emily Barrett Browning
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title:The Unknown Citizen
famous line: "Was he free? Was he happy? The question is/absurd:/Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard."
-satire
W.H. Auden
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title:To a Louse
Rober Burns
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title:My Heart Leaps Up
famous line:"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."...The child is the father to the man"
William Wordsworth
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title: The Man He Killed
famous line: "Yes; quaint and curious war is!/You, shoot a fellow down/You'd treat if met where any bar is,/Or help to half-a-crown!"
Thomas Hardy
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title: Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
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title: Sweet Afton
famous line: "Flow gently, sweet Afton,/disturb not her dream"
Robert Burns
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title: Death Be Not Proud
famous line: "Death be not proud, though some have called the. Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so"
John Donne
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title: She Walks in Beauty
famous line: "She walks in beauty, like the night of Cloudless chimes, and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes:"
Lord George Byron
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title:To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
famous line: "Gather ye rose-buds While ye may"
Robert Herrick
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title: Song to Celia
famous line: "Drink to me, only with thine Ayes and I will pledge with mine"
Ben Johnson
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title: Crossing the Bar
famous line: "I hope to see my pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar."
Lord Aflred Tennyson
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title: To An Athlete Dying Young
famous line: "Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honours out, Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man."
A.E. Houseman
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title: The World is too Much With Us
famous line: "The world is too much with us; late and soon Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours: We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!'
William Wordsworth
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title: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
famous lines: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
Dylan Thomas
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title: When I Have Fears
famous line: "...Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and thin Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink"
John Keats
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title: Kubla Khan
famous line: "In Xandu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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title: Ode On A Grecian Urn
famous line: "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
John Keats
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