Poem

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A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning

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Topic

Citizens of the world Patriotism Globalism

Author

George Canning

Source

New Morality

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Canning, George. "New Morality." Anti-Jacobin Magazine and Review, 1821.

Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie.

Ezra Pound

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Topic

Horrors of war World War I

Author

Ezra Pound

Source

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... The hour
Before the dawn... The mouth of one
Just dead.

Adelaide Crapsey

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Topic

Silence

Author

Adelaide Crapsey

Source

Triad

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Verse. Manas Press, 1915.

Current Citation

Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey, edited by Susan S. Smith. State University of New York Press, 2016.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Georg Trakl

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Topic

Silence Stillness Solitude The forest

Author

Georg Trakl

Source

De Profundis Gedichte

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." Gedichte. Contumax, 1913.

Current Citation

Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." To the Silenced, translated by Will Stone. Arc Publications, 2005.

The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.

Francis Quarles

Emblems

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Topic

Doubt and skepticism

Author

Francis Quarles

Source

Emblems

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

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Citation

Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 4, emblem 2.

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all things Connecting with others

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Love's Philosophy

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Love's Philosophy." The Indicator. London: J. Appleyard, 22 Dec. 1819, I. 1.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Love's Philosophy." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

Francis Quarles

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Topic

Work Fatigue

Author

Francis Quarles

Source

Emblems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

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Citation

Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 2, emblem 2.

Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

Bertolt Brecht

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Topic

Parliamentary democracy Citizen and state Democracy

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Source

The Solution

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Irony Joke

Language

German

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Brecht, Bertolt. "Die Lösung [The Solution]." Die Welt, 1959.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

Source

Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour.

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

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Citation

De Bussy-Rabutin, Roger. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules [Love history of the Gauls]. Cork: Editions à la Croix de Malte, 1665.

O Life! how pleasant in thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like school-boys at th' expected warning,
To joy and play.

Robert Burns

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Topic

Youth

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Epistle to James Smith

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1786 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burns, Robert. "Epistle to James Smith." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786, st. 16.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "To James Smith." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 16.

I would be married, but I'de have no Wife,
I would be married to a single Life.

Richard Crashaw

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Topic

Single life Marriage

Author

Richard Crashaw

Source

On Marriage Steps to the Temple

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1646 1640s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Crashaw, Richard. "On Marriage." Steps to the Temple. Humphrey Moseley, 1646, I. 1.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

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Topic

Life and death The human condition

Author

Francis Thompson

Source

Daisy

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Thompson, Francis. "Daisy." Poems. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893, st. 15.

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

William Cullen Bryant

The Death of the Flowers

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Topic

Autumn

Author

William Cullen Bryant

Source

The Death of the Flowers

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Bryant, William Cullen. "The Death of the Flowers." Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, st. 1.

Thou art my way; I wander, if thou fly;
Thou art my light; if hid, how blind am I!
Thou art my life; if thou withdraw, I die.

Francis Quarles

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Topic

Needing another person Being in love

Author

Francis Quarles

Source

Emblems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1643 1640s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 3, emblem 7.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Topic

Simple living Small town life

Author

Thomas Gray

Source

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

Current Citation

Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

Fair face show friends
When riches do abound:
Come time of proof,
Farewell, they must away.

Barnabe Googe

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Topic

Money and friendship Friendship

Author

Barnabe Googe

Source

Of Money

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1563 1560s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Citation

Googe, Barnabe. Of Money. c. 1563.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Anti-war War

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

The People, Yes

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936, no. 23.

Some of my best friends are white boys.
When I meet 'em
I treat 'em
just the same as if they was people.

Ray Durem

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Topic

Race relations

Author

Ray Durem

Source

Broadminded

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Durem, Ray. Broadminded. c. 1951.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession;
I am your friend, but never your possession.

Vera Brittain

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Topic

Marriage Gender relations Men and women

Author

Vera Brittain

Source

Married Love

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Brittain, Vera. "Married Love." Poems of the War and After. Victor Gollancz, 1934.

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Author

Thomas Gray

Source

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

Current Citation

Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.