Poem

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If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

Anne Bradstreet

To my Dear and Loving Husband

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Topic

True love

Author

Anne Bradstreet

Source

To my Dear and Loving Husband

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1672 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "To my Dear and Loving Husband." Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight. Boston: John Foster, 1678, I. 1.

Current Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "To my Dear and Loving Husband." To My Husband and Other Poems, edited by Robert Hutchinson. Dover Publications, 2011.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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Topic

Old age Death

Author

Dylan Thomas

Source

Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Botteghe Oscure, 1951.

We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Relationships Letting go

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.

Who built the Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?...
Where, the evening that the wall of China was finished
Did the masons go?

Bertolt Brecht

Questions from a Worker Who Reads

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Topic

Great man theory of history Seven wonders of the world Workers History

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Source

Questions from a Worker Who Reads

Medium

Poem

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

German

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Brecht, Bertolt. "Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters [Questions of a Reading Worker]." Das Wort, 1936.

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio

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Haste Taking one's time

Author

Dante Alighieri

Source

Purgatorio The Divine Comedy

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature

Language

Italian

Time

1321 1320s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dante. "Purgatorio [Purgatory]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

Current Citation

Dante. "The Purgatorio." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Venus and Adonis

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1593 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Venus and Adonis. London: Richard Field, 1593, I. 799.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Venus and Adonis." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

The Black Man Speaks

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Topic

Jim Crow Black experience

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

The Black Man Speaks

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Black Man Speaks." Jim Crow’s Last Stand. Negro Publications Society of America, 1943, I. 1.

The pebble
is a perfect creature

equal to itself
mindful of its limits

filled exactly
with a pebbly meaning

Zbigniew Herbert

Pebble

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Topic

Nature

Author

Zbigniew Herbert

Source

Pebble

Medium

Poem

Language

Polish

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Herbert, Zbigniew. "Kamyk [Pebble]." Studium przedmiotu [Subject Study]. Czytelnik, 1961.

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

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Topic

Horrors of war War

Author

Wilfred Owen

Source

Dulce et Decorum Est

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." Poems by Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

Current Citation

Owen, Wilfred. "Dulce et Decorum Est." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Topic

America

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.

Thence we came forth to see the stars again.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno

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Stars The night sky

Author

Dante Alighieri

Source

Inferno The Divine Comedy

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem Epic poem Religious literature

Language

Italian

Time

1321 1320s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

Current Citation

Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Homer

The Odyssey

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Topic

Slavery Death

Author

Homer

Source

The Odyssey

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 11, l. 489-491.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 11, l. 489-491.

We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Topic

Progress

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Pioneers! O Pioneers! Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, st. 2. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, st. 2.

Who overcomes
By force hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

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Topic

Partial victory Persuasion

Speaker

Satan

Author

John Milton

Source

Paradise Lost

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1667 1660s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 1, I. 648.

Current Citation

Milton, John. "Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, I. 648.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Topic

Battle Failure Winning and losing

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Song of Myself Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 18.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Topic

The sacred Life

Author

William Blake

Source

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Medium

Poem

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Blake, William. "A Song of Liberty." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "A Song of Liberty." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Abundance

Author

William Blake

Source

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Medium

Poem

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.

William Blake

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Topic

Forgiveness

Author

William Blake

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1804 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1804.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "My Spectre around me night & day." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

It's in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman

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Topic

Women

Author

Maya Angelou

Source

Phenomenal Woman

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Angelou, Maya. "Phenomenal Woman." And Still I Rise. Random House, 1978, I. 6.

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

Songs of Experience

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Generous love Nature of love Love

Author

William Blake

Source

Songs of Experience

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod and the Pebble." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Clod & the Pebble." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.