Poem

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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Tennyson

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Topic

Fresh start Progress New Year

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 106, st. 1.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 106, st. 1.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

Abraham Cowley

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Topic

Nature The world

Author

Abraham Cowley

Source

Inconstancy The Mistress

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1647 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Cowley, Abraham. "Inconstancy." The Mistress with Other Select Poems. London: self-published, 1647.

Becoming a father isn't difficult,
But it's very difficult to be a father.

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Topic

Fatherhood Parenting

Author

Wilhelm Busch

Source

Julchen

Medium

Poem

Language

German

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Busch, Wilhelm. Julchen. Munich: Bassermann, 1877.

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash

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Topic

Consumerism Excessive development

Author

Ogden Nash

Source

Song of the Open Road

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nash, Ogden. "Song of the Open Road." The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 1932.

Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

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Topic

Dissent Patriotism

Author

Wendell Berry

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Berry, Wendell. "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front." The Country of Marriage. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Skylark

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Topic

Melancholy Yin and yang

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

To a Skylark

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To a Skylark." Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts, With Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, I. 88.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To a Skylark." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 88.

Oh, love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

The Young Man's Song

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third.
Were axioms to him, who'd never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.

W.H. Auden

The Shield of Achilles

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Topic

Violence Brutality

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

The Shield of Achilles

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1952 19502s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Auden, W. H. "The Shield of Achilles." The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1955. Originally published in Poetry, Oct. 1952.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California

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Topic

Consumerism American life

Author

Allen Ginsberg

Source

A Supermarket in California

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.

Things bygone are the only things that last:
The Present is mere grass, quick-mown away;
The Past is stone, and stands for ever fast.

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

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Topic

Past and present The past The present Impermanence

Author

Eugene Lee-Hamilton

Source

Sonnets of the Wingless Hours

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Lee-Hamilton, Eugene. "Roman Baths." Sonnets of the Wingless Hours. Chicago and Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1894.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather
Resemble copper wire, or brass,
Which gets the narrower by going farther!

Thomas Hood

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Topic

Learning from travel Effects of travel Travel

Author

Thomas Hood

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire." Athenæum, 12 Aug. 1837.

To an open house in the evening
Home shall men come,
To an older place than Eden
And a taller town than Rome.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Heaven

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

The House of Christmas Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The House of Christmas." Poems. John Lane Company, 1916.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

Edgar A. Guest

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Topic

Practice what you preach Personal integrity

Author

Edgar A. Guest

Source

Sermons We See

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Guest, Edgar. Sermons We See. c. 1926.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is at home.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Topic

Patriotism

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.

There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization.

Ezra Pound

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Topic

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 5.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

The Present Crisis

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Topic

Decisions and choices Inflection points

Author

James Russell Lowell

Source

The Present Crisis

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Lowell, James Russell. "The Present Crisis." Poems. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. Originally published as "Verses Suggested by the Present Crisis." Boston Courier, 11 Dec. 1845.

His heart was in his garden; but his brain
Wandered at will among the fiery stars.

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

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Topic

Daydreaming Imagination

Author

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard. "Sonnets: Part II." Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864.

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!

Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella

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Topic

The moon

Author

Philip Sidney

Source

Astrophel and Stella

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1591 1590s 16th century

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Original Citation

Sidney, Philip. Astrophel and Stella. London: Thomas Newman, 1591, sonnet 31.

Current Citation

Sidney, Philip. "Astrophil and Stella." Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford University Press, 2009, sonnet 31.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Edward Thomas

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Topic

Idealizing the past The past

Author

Edward Thomas

Source

Early One Morning

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Edward. "Early One Morning." Poems. Henry Holt/Selwyn & Blount, 1917, I. 15.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

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Topic

God and man Creativity Trees

Author

Joyce Kilmer

Source

Trees

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kilmer, Joyce. "Trees." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1913, I. 11.