Poem

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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Topic

Personal liberation Liberation Freedom

Author

Lord Byron

Source

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 2, st. 76.

Current Citation

Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 76.

Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrows too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

William Blake

Songs of Innocence

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Topic

Empathy Helping others

Author

William Blake

Source

Songs of Innocence

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. "On Another's Sorrow." Songs of Innocence. London, 1789.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "On Anothers Sorrow." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

William Blake

Songs of Experience

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Topic

Dealing with anger Anger

Author

William Blake

Source

Songs of Experience

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. "A Poison Tree." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "A Poison Tree." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Topic

Parties

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 1.

They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam!

Rudyard Kipling

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Topic

Limitations of travel Travel

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

The Native-Born

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Native-Born." London Times, 1895, st. 2.

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Adventure Beginning of a journey

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 1.

O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.

Langston Hughes

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Topic

American ideals America

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

Let America Be America Again

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hughes, Langston. "Let America Be America Again." Esquire Magazine, July 1936.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece

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Topic

Fear

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Rape of Lucrece

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. The Rape of Lucrece. London: Richard Field, 1594, I. 230.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Rape of Lucrece." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, I. 230.

Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

The Table Turned

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Topic

Learning from nature

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

The Table Turned

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, I. 15.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The Tables Turned." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 15.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas

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Topic

Being gay Homosexuality

Author

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas

Source

Two Loves

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Douglas, Alfred Bruce. "Two Loves." The Chameleon, Dec. 1894.

Current Citation

Douglas, Alfred Bruce. "Two Loves." Two Loves and Other Poems. Bennett & Kitchel, 1990.

Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?

William Wordsworth

Lines Written in Early Spring

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Topic

Man's cruelty to man

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

Lines Written in Early Spring

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Lament

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Lines written in early spring." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. and A. Arch, 1798, st. 6.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Lines written in Early Spring." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 6.

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.

William Blake

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Topic

Letting go

Author

William Blake

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Eternity." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

William Blake

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Topic

The human condition Wisdom Happiness Sadness

Author

William Blake

Source

Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Auguries of Innocence." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Home

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.

Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,
And breaks all chains from every mind.

William Blake

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Topic

Power of love Being in love Love

Author

William Blake

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "Love to faults is always blind." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."

Phoebe Cary

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Topic

Perseverance Persistence

Author

Phoebe Cary

Source

Keep a Stiff Upper Lip

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Cary, Phoebe. Keep a Stiff Upper Lip. c. 1870.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?

Robert Burns

Auld Lang Syne

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Topic

Remembering the past

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Auld Lang Syne

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Burns, Robert. Quoted in "Auld Lang Syne." Scots Musical Museum. Written by James Johnson. 1796, st. 1.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Auld Lang Syne." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems

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Topic

Openness to change Change

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

Locksley Hall Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 182.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 182.

One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Atlantic Monthly

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Battles of Lexington and Concord American Revolution

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

Paul Revere's Ride The Atlantic Monthly

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Paul Revere's Ride." The Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1861.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, st. 2.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems

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Knowledge Wisdom

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

Locksley Hall Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 141.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 141.