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Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.

Henry Wotton

The Character of a Happy Life

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Topic

Freedom in poverty

Author

Henry Wotton

Source

The Character of a Happy Life

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1651 1650s 17th century

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Citation

Wotton, Henry. "The Character of a Happy Life." Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1651, st. 6.

Near this spot
Are deposited the Remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.

Lord Byron

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Topic

Dogs Man and animals

Author

Lord Byron

Source

Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Lord Byron. "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog." 1808.

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade

W.H. Auden

September 1,1939

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Topic

Disillusionment

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

September 1,1939

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

But, friend, to me
He is all fault who hath no fault at all:
For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King

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Topic

Friends

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

Lancelot and Elaine Idylls of the King

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon, 1859, I. 131-133.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King, edited by J. M. Gray. Penguin Classics, 1989, I. 131-133.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow. But when the brilliance given by Zeus comes, a shining light is on man, and a gentle lifetime.

Pindar

Pythian Odes

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Topic

Ephemeral nature of life God's favor

Author

Pindar

Source

Pythian Odes

Medium

Poem

Language

Greek

Time

446 BC 440s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pindar. Pythian Odes. c. 474, pythian 8.

Current Citation

Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008, pythian 8.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Anonymity Solitude Obscurity

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Ode on Solitude

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Allen Ginsberg

Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport

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Topic

Anti-war War

Author

Allen Ginsberg

Source

Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Ginsberg, Allen. "Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport." The Fall of America: Poems of These States. City Lights Bookstore, 1973.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, -
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems

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Topic

Existing not living

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

Ulysses (Tennyson) Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 22.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 22.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

William Cowper

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Grief

Author

William Cowper

Source

Charity 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. "Charity." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, I. 159.

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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Daffodils Flowers

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth: The Major Works including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue.

Robert Southey

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Topic

The sky

Author

Robert Southey

Source

Madoc

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Southey, Robert. Madoc. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1805, pt. 1.

I see the rural virtues leave the land.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Topic

Rural vs. urban Urbanization

Author

Oliver Goldsmith

Source

The Deserted Village

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1770 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, I. 398.

I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Cycle of violence Eye for an eye Human nature

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

September 1, 1939 Another Time

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

Reach for the book: It is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

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Topic

Power of literature Books

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Source

In Praise of Learning

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

German

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Lebed der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer. [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver.] 17 Jan. 1932, omödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

Current Citation

Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

The greatest heroes that the world can know,
To women their original must owe.

Mary Collier

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Topic

Mothers and children Mothers Women

Author

Mary Collier

Source

The Three Wise Sentences

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1740 1740s 18th century

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Original Citation

Collier, Mary. "The Three Wise Sentences, from the First Book of Esdras." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

Current Citation

Collier, Mary. "The Three Wise Sentences Taken from The First Book of Esdras." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Gerard de Nerval

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Flowers

Author

Gerard de Nerval

Source

Golden Lines

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Nerval, Gerard De. Vers Dores. c. 1843, l. 8.

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.

A.E. Housman

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Alcohol Problem of evil

Author

A.E. Housman

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896, no. 62, I. 21.

Current Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. "A Shropshire Lad." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 62, I. 21.

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
That's where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman

Out Where the West Begins

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American West

Author

Arthur Chapman

Source

Out Where the West Begins

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Chapman, Arthur. "Out Where the West Begins." Out Where the West Begins: And Other Western Verses. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917, I. 1.

What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

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Effects of time Time Impermanence

Author

James Bramston

Source

The Art of Politics

Medium

Poem

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1729 1720s 18th century

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Citation

Bramston, James. The Art of Politics. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1729.

So the industrious bees do hourly strive
To bring their loads of honey to the hive;
Their sordid owners always reap the gains,
And poorly recompense their toils and pains.

Mary Collier

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Bees Man and animals

Author

Mary Collier

Source

The Woman's Labour

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1739 1730s 18th century

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Original Citation

Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

Current Citation

Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.