Poem

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Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Topic

Pride Envy

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

An Essay on Man

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1733 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep.1, I. 125-126.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 125-126.

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

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Topic

Nature of life Life Pessimism

Author

Abraham Cowley

Source

To Dr. Scarborough Pindarique Odes

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1656 1650s 17th century

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Citation

Cowley, Abraham. "To Dr Scarborough." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, st. 6.

But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart!

Thomas Hood

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Topic

Thoughtlessness Heartlessness

Author

Thomas Hood

Source

The Lady's Dream

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hood, Thomas. "The Lady's Dream." Hood’s Own. London: Edward Moxon, 1862. Originally published in Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, 1844.

The people people choose for friends
Your common sense appall,
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Topic

Judging others

Author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source

Queer People

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Queer People. c. 1899.

Day her sultry fires had wasted. Calm and sweet the moonlight rose.

Thomas Campbell

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Dusk Moonlight

Author

Thomas Campbell

Source

The Turkish Lady

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1800 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Campbell, Thomas. The Turkish Lady. c. 1840.

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

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Topic

Acquiring wisdom

Author

Edward Young

Source

Love of Fame, the Universal Passion

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Young, Edward. Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. c. 1726, satire 2, I. 282.

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
Could have recover'd greennesse?

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Topic

Healing

Author

George Herbert

Source

The Flower The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, st. 2.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Complete Poetry, edited by John Drury and Victoria Moul. Penguin Classics, 2015, st. 2.

The sea is the land's edge also, the granite
Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses
It hints of earlier and other creation:
The starfish, the hermit crab, the whale's backbone;
The pools where it offers to our curiosity
The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.
It tosses up our losses, the torn seine,
The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar
And the gear of foreigh dead men. The sea has many voices.

T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Dry Salvages Four Quartets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Dry Salvages." New English Weekly, Feb. 1941.

For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

Isaac Watts

Against Idleness and Mischief

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Idleness

Author

Isaac Watts

Source

Against Idleness and Mischief

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1715 1710s 18th century

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Citation

Watts, Isaac. "Against Idleness and Mischief." Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. London: M. Lawrence, 1715, I. 11.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe-
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.

Eugene Field

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

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Topic

Sleep Adventure

Author

Eugene Field

Source

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

Medium

Poem

Genre

Children's literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Field, Eugene. Dutch Lullaby. 1889, I. 1.

Current Citation

Field, Eugene. Wynken, Blynken, & Nod. North-South Books, 1998, I. 1.

Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Les Meditations Poetiques

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Topic

Mourning Grief

Author

Alphonse de Lamartine

Source

L'Isolement Les Meditations Poetiques

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. "L'Isolement [Isolation]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven.

John Keats

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Topic

The sky Spending time in nature Getting away

Author

John Keats

Source

To one who has been long in city pent Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Keats, John. "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent." Poems. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817, I. 1.

Current Citation

Keats, John. "To one who has been long in city pent." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

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Topic

Complexities of love Sex Dangers of love Love

Author

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

Source

Celestine

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

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Citation

De Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris. Celestine. 1784.

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

Edward Young

Night Thoughts

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Topic

Wisdom

Author

Edward Young

Source

Night Thoughts

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1742 1740s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742-1745, Night 1, I. 390.

Current Citation

Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 390.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical disguise.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Topic

The little things Special moments

Author

Gwendolyn Brooks

Source

Exhaust the Little Moment

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Brooks, Gwendolyn. "Exhaust the Little Moment." Annie Allen. Harper & Brothers, 1949.

Love…that cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

John Wilmot

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Topic

Love

Author

John Wilmot

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1679 1670s 17th century

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Original Citation

Wilmot, John. A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country. London, c. 1680.

Current Citation

Wilmot, John. "A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country." The Complete Works of John Wilmot. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Wheree'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Summer Seasons

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Summer -- The Second Pastoral, or Alexis Poetical Miscellanies

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1709 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Summer: The Second Pastoral, or Alexis." Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson, 1709, I. 73.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Pastorals." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.

Thomas Hood

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Topic

Autumn

Author

Thomas Hood

Source

Ode: Autumn

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1827 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.

Joseph Campbell (poet)

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Topic

Beauty and aging Old age

Author

Joseph Campbell (poet)

Source

The Old Woman

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Campbell, Joseph. "The Old Woman." Irishry. Maunsel & Company, 1913, st. 1.

Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

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Topic

Missing someone Losing a loved one Grief Loss

Author

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Source

The Manyoshu

Medium

Poem

Language

Japanese

Time

759 750s 8th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Man'yōshū. Compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi. c. 759, bk. 2, poem 210-2.

Current Citation

Anonymous. 1000 Poems from the Manyoshu: The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinko Translation, selected and translated by Iwanami Shoten. Dover Publications, 2005, bk. 2, poem 210-2.