Poem

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Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart?

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Introspection Vulnerability Fear

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Poem

Language

German

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Die vierte Elegie [Fourth Elegy]." Duineser Elegien [Duino Elegies]. Insel-Verlag, 1923.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies, translated by David Young. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears -
Ah, she doth depart.

William Blake

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Topic

Unrequited love Love

Author

William Blake

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Never Pain to Tell Thy Love." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Topic

Rich vs. poor Law

Author

Oliver Goldsmith

Source

The Traveller

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Topic

Shortness of life Life and death Life Death

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth Tales of a Wayside Inn

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1873, sect. 4.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Favorite Poems. Dover Publications, 1992, sect. 4.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

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Topic

Oblivion Hell

Speaker

Lucifer

Author

Philip James Bailey

Source

Festus

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Bailey, Philip John. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

Current Citation

Bailey, Philip John. Festus, edited by Mischa Willett. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

The sky is darkening like a stain;
Something is going to fall like rain,
And it won't be flowers.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Foreboding

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

The Witnesses

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "The Witnesses." Listener’s poetry supplement, 12 July 1933.

I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost

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Topic

Night Depression Melancholy

Author

Robert Frost

Source

Acquainted with the Night

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1928, st. 1, I. 1.

Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love's pleasure drives his love away,
The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

The ephemeral

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

Two Songs From a Play

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Tower. Macmillan & Company, 1928.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Wordsworth Editions, 2000.

Where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin

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Topic

Opportunities

Author

Friedrich Hölderlin

Source

Patmos

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Hölderlin, Friedrich. Patmos. c. 1808.

Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

The Rosciad

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Topic

Genius Talent

Author

Charles Churchill

Source

The Rosciad

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1761 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Churchill, Charles. The Rosciad. London: William Flexney, 1741.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

Power of love Love

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Love (Coleridge)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie." Morning Post, 21 Dec. 1799, I. 1.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Love (1799)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

William Cowper

Conversations

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Topic

Being right Fools Probability

Author

William Cowper

Source

Conversations Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1782 1780s 18th century

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Citation

Cowper, William. "Conversation." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, I. 96.

Days decrease,
And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Robert Browning

Andrea del Sarto

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Topic

Autumn Seasons

Author

Robert Browning

Source

Andrea del Sarto

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Browning, Robert. "Andrea del Sarto." Men and Women. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855, I. 44.

Current Citation

Browning, Robert. "Andrea del Sarto." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 44.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens

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Topic

Rest

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Faerie Queens

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1590 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas P. Roche and C. Patrick O'Donnell. Penguin Classics, 1979, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.

Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

William Cowper

On hunting.

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Topic

Hunting Man and animals

Author

William Cowper

Source

The Garden The Task

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1785 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 3.

Current Citation

Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 3.

Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;
Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home;
Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends,
He had the passion and the power to roam.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Topic

Love of nature Nature

Author

Lord Byron

Source

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 3, st. 13.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 13.

Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change, are virtues made or crimes.

Daniel Defoe

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Topic

Custom and convention Moral relativism Moral theory Morality

Author

Daniel Defoe

Source

A Hymn to the Pillory

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1703 1700s 18th century

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Citation

Defoe, Daniel. A Hymn to the Pillory. London: 1703, I. 29.

That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

Emily Dickinson

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Topic

Power of love Love

Author

Emily Dickinson

Source

That Love Is All There Is

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." A Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Little, Brown and Company, 1914, I. 1.

Current Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore,
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

John Milton

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Topic

Sunset Sunrise The sun

Author

John Milton

Source

Lycidas Justa Edouardo King Naufrago ab Amicis morentibus, amoris

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1638 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Milton, John. "Lycidas." Justa Edouardo King Naufrago ab Amicis morentibus, amoris [Just Edward King Shipwrecked by Dying Friends, of love. Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638.

Current Citation

Milton, John. "Lycidas." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Topic

Being in love Love

Author

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, sonnet 43.

Current Citation

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Penguin Classics, 1996, sonnet 43.