Poetry Midterm

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William WORDSWORTH

I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

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Mina LOY

Partuition

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I am the centre Of a circle of pain

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Ezra POUND

The River Merchants Wife

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While my hair was still cut straight across my foreheadI played about the front gate, pulling flowers. ...At fifteen I stopped scowling,I desired my dust to be mingled with yours

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John KEATS

Ode to a Grecian Urn

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

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William Carlos WILLIAMS

The Great Figure

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Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

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Marianne MOORE

Poetry( I too dislike it)

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I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.

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Archibald MACLEISH

Ars Poetica

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A poem should be equal to:Not true.

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Margaret ATWOOD

Habitation

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Marriage is not a house or even a tent

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Charles BERNSTEIN

Of Time and The Line

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George Burns likes to insist that he alwaystakes the straight lines; the cigar in his mouthis a way of leaving space between the lines for a laugh (line)

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John DONNE

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The Good Morrow: I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?

The Flea:It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;

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John MILTON

When I Consider How My Light is Spent

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...Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His stateIs kingly: thousands at His bidding speed, And post o’er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.”

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Percy SHELLEY

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I met a traveller from an antique land...Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command....And on the pedestal these words appear:`... Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare...

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Jean TOOMER

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Reapers: And start their silent swinging, one by one.

Georgia Dusk:The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue The setting sun, too indolent to hold

Harvest Song: I am a reaper (dust)

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Louis ZUHOFSKY

Mantis

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Don't light on my chest, mantis! do——you're lost,Let the poor laugh at my fright, then see it:

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Elisabeth BISHOP

Sestina

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Time to plant tears, says the almanac.The grandmother sings to the marvelous stoveand the child draws another inscrutable house.

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Theodore ROETHKE

Tha Waking

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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

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Alfred Lord TENNYSON

Ulysses

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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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W.H. AUDEN

The Shield of Achilles

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She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees,

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Andrew MARVELL

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The Garden:How vainly men themselves amazeTo win the palm, the oak, or bays,

To His Coy Mistress:Had we but world enough and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.

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Robert FROST

The Black Cottage

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WE chanced in passing by that afternoonTo catch it in a sort of special pictureAmong tar-banded ancient cherry trees,

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Amy LOWELL

Patterns

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I walk down the garden paths,And all the daffodilsAre blowing, and the bright blue squills.

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Robery CREELEY

Old Song

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And all our nights be one, love,For all we knew.

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Christopher MARLOWE

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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If these delights thy mind may move,Then live with me, and be MY love.

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Robert HERRICK

To The Virgins to Make Much of Time

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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; (warning)

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Sir Walter RALEIGH

The Nymphs Reply to The Shepherd

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Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee, and be THY love.