Poets and Poetry Flashcards

1
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Poet who used only lower case letters

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e.e. cummings

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First U.S. poet laureate

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Robert Penn Warren

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3
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The Harlem Poet

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Langston Hughes

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4
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Who wrote the poem Don Juan?

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Lord Byron

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5
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Who wrote the poem Old Ironsides?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Who wrote the poem Daffodils?

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William Wordsworth

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Who wrote the poem Bells and Pomegranates?

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Robert Browning

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Who wrote the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

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Maya Angelou

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9
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Who wrote the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?

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Robert Browning

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10
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Who wrote the poem To a Louse?

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Robert Burns

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11
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Canadian Poet’s school

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School of Montreal

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12
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Plowman Poet or The Scottish Poet

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Robert Burns

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13
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Poet who read at JFK’s inauguration

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Robert Frost

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14
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Who wrote the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci?

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John Keats

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15
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Who wrote the poem To a Skylark?

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Percy Bysshe Shelly

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16
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Who wrote the poem Annabell Lee?

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Edgar Allen Poe

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17
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Poet who read at Clinton’s inauguration

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Maya Angelou

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18
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Mussolini friend who died in an asylum

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Ezra Pound

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19
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Who wrote the poem John Brown’s Body?

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Stephen Vincent Benet

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20
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Who wrote the poem The Bells?

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Edgar Allen Poe

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21
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Who wrote the poem Howl?

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Allen Ginsberg

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22
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Who wrote the poem Idylls of the King?

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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23
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Who wrote the poem When the Frost is on the Punkin?

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James Whitcomb Riley

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24
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Who wrote the poem Tales of Wayside Inn?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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25
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Who wrote the poem The Faerie Queen?

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Edmund Spencer

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26
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Who wrote the poem Tinturn Abbey?

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William Wordsworth

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27
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Who wrote the poem Little Boy Blue?

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Eugene Field

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28
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Who wrote the poem Ariel?

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Percy Bysshe Shelly

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29
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Who wrote the poem Songs of Innocence?

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William Blake

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30
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Who wrote the poem Mending Wall?

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Robert Frost

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31
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Who wrote the poem Tamberlane?

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Edgar Allen Poe

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32
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Who wrote the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn?

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John Keats

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33
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Who wrote the poem The Raven?

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Edgar Allen Poe

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34
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Who wrote the poem The Song of Hiawatha?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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35
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Who wrote the poem Lady of the Lake?

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Sir Walter Scott

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36
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Who wrote the poem Thanatopsis?

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William Cullen Bryant

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37
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Who wrote the poem There Will Come Soft Rains?

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Sara Teasdale

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38
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Number of lines in a sonnet

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Fourteen

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39
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Who wrote the poem Jabberwocky?

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Lewis Carroll

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40
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Who wrote the poem O Captain My Captain?

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Walt Whitman

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41
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Who wrote Sonnets from the Portuguese?

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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42
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Who wrote the poem The Arsenal at Springfield?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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43
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Who wrote the poem I Never Saw a Moor?

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Emily Dickenson

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44
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Who wrote the poem Death Be Not Proud?

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John Donne

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45
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Who wrote the poem The Pisan Cantos?

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Ezra Pound

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46
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Who wrote the poem The Rape of the Lock?

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Alexander Pope

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47
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Who wrote the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?

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Thomas Grey

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48
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The Ode Poet

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John Keats

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49
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Welsh Poet

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Dylan Thomas

50
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Who wrote the poem The New Colossus?

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Emma Lazarus

51
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Who wrote the poem Evangeline?

A

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

52
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Limerick writer - 1870’s

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Edward Lear

53
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Who wrote the poem Gunga Din?

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Rudyard Kipling

54
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Earliest known poem - 3rd millenium B.C. mesopotamia

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

55
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Who wrote the poem The Lake Isle at Innisfree?

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William Butler Yeats

56
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Lake Poet

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William Wordsworth

57
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Who wrote the poem The Waste Land?

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T.S. Eliot

58
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Who wrote the poem To Helen?

A

Edgar Allen Poe

59
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Edda poetry comes from this country

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Iceland

60
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Who wrote the poem No Man is an Island?

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John Donne

61
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U.S. Poet of the Beat generation

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Allen Ginsberg

62
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“Old Possum”

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T.S. Eliot

63
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Who wrote the poem The Chambered Nautilus?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

64
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Who wrote Lyrical Ballads?

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

65
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Who wrote the poem Kubla Khan?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

66
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Who wrote the poem Snowbound?

A

John Greenleaf Whittier

67
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Quaker Poet

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John Greenleaf Whittier

68
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Who wrote the poem Leaves of Grass?

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Walt Whitman

69
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Who wrote the poem Tam O’ Shanter?

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Robert Burns

70
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Who wrote the poem Fog?

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Carl Sandburg

71
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Who wrote the poem The Road to Mandalay?

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Rudyard Kipling

72
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New Hampshire or New England Poet

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Robert Frost

73
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Who wrote the poem The Lays of Ancient Rome?

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Thomas Macaulay

74
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Who wrote the poem Song of Myself?

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Walt Whitman

75
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Who wrote the poem Prometheus Unbound?

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Percy Bysshe Shelly

76
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Who wrote the poem My Last Duchess?

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Robert Browning

77
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Who wrote the poem She Walks in Beauty?

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Lord Byron

78
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Who wrote the poem A Love Letter to Her Husband?

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Anne Bradstreet

79
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Who wrote the poem If?

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Rudyard Kipling

80
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Who wrote the poem Auld Lang Syne?

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Robert Burns

81
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American Colonies first female poet

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Anne Bradstreet

82
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Who wrote the poem The Harp Weaver?

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

83
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Who wrote the poem The Village Blacksmith?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

84
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Who wrote the poem On His Blindness?

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John Milton

85
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Who wrote the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

86
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Persian Poet (11th Century)

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Omar Khayyam

87
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Who wrote the poem Love Songs?

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Sara Teasdale

88
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Who wrote the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

89
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“The Altar” Poet

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George Herbert

90
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Who wrote the poem The Road Not Taken?

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Robert Frost

91
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The Belle of Amherst

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Emily Dickenson

92
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Who wrote the poem A Visit From St. Nicholas?

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Clement Moore

93
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Who wrote the poem Under Milkwood?

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Dylan Thomas

94
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Who wrote the poem Assurance?

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Emily Dickenson

95
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Who wrote the poem Casey at the Bat?

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Ernest Thayer

96
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Who wrote the poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

97
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“A Second Johnson”

A

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

98
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Who wrote the poem The Tyger?

A

William Blake

99
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Who wrote Spoon River Anthology?

A

Edgar Lee Masters

100
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Who wrote the poem Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry?

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Walt Whitman

101
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Who wrote the poem To a Mouse?

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Robert Burns

102
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Who wrote the poem Aurora Leigh?

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

103
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Who wrote the poem America the Beautiful?

A

Kathy Lee Bates

104
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Who wrote the poem Pippa Passes?

A

Robert Browning

105
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Perceval Lowell’s sister

A

Amy Lowell

106
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Who wrote the poem What’s O’Clock?

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Amy Lowell

107
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Who wrote the poem Strange Victory?

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Sara Teasdale

108
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Who wrote the poem Ode on Melancholy?

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John Keats

109
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Who wrote the poem Trees?

A

Joyce Kilmer

110
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Who wrote the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter?

A

Lewis Carroll

111
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Who wrote the poem Crossing the Bar?

A

Alfred Lord Tennyson

112
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Who wrote the poem Ode to the West Wind?

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Percy Bysshe Shelly

113
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Who wrote the poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening?

A

Robert Frost

114
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Who wrote the poem Ode to a Nightengale?

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John Keats

115
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Limerick writer for The New Yorker

A

Ogden Nash

116
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Who wrote the poem Battle Hymn of the Republic?

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Julia Ward Howe

117
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Who wrote the poem Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night?

A

Dylan Thomas

118
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Who wrote the poem Rubaiyat?

A

Omar Khayyam

119
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Poets buried in same Roman cemetary

A

John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelly

120
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English Poet who drowned at the age of 25

A

John Keats

121
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Who wrote the poem Endymion?

A

John Keats

122
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Who wrote the poem The Wild Swans at Coole?

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William Butler Yeats