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Poets and their lines
These are memorable lines from famous poets from Britain, Ireland and US. Find the authors.
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Last updated: June 4, 2023
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| First submitted | June 4, 2023 |
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1.
" Heard Melodies are Sweet, But those unheard are sweeter" .
William Shakespeare
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John Keats
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P.B.Shelley
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Lord Byron
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2.
" If winter comes, can spring be far behind"?
Thomas Hardy
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D.H.Lawrence
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P.B.Shelley
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Dylan Thomas
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3.
" He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest.."
John Milton
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W.H.Davies
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Chaucer
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W.H.Auden
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4.
" If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England."?
W.H.Auden
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Lord Byron
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Robert Browning
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Rupert Brooke
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5.
"No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; "
John Dryden
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John Donne
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John Keats
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Alfred Tennyson
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6.
" Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;"
Rupert Brooke
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W.H.Auden
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W.B.Yeats
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T.S.Eliot
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7.
" The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
Seamus Heaney
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S.T.Coleridge
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William Wordsworth
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W.B.Yeats
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8.
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
Robert Frost
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Walt Whitman
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T.S.Eliot
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Emily Dickinson
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9.
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same; "
William Shakespeare
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H.W.Longfellow
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Rudyard Kipling
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Wendy Cope
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10.
"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once."
John Milton
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William Shakespeare
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Edmund Spencer
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Christopher Marlowe
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11.
"The day he moved out was terrible –
That evening she went through hell.
His absence wasn’t a problem
But the corkscrew had gone as well.
Emily Dickinson
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Elizabeth Browning
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Wendy Cope
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Maya Angelou
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12.
"I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;"
T.S.Eliot
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Seamus Heaney
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W.B.Yeats
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Oscar Wilde
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13.
"The maps at his disposal were out of date
And the Census Returns almost certainly incorrect,
But there was no time to check them, no time to inspect
Contested areas. The weather was frightfully hot,
And a bout of dysentery kept him constantly on the trot,
But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided,
A continent for better or worse divided."
Rudyard Kipling
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Ezra Pound
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W.H.Auden
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T.S.Eliot
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14.
"THE APPARITION of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough."
Seamus Heaney
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W.B.Yeats
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Ezra Pound
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Sylvia Plath
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15.
"Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Rupert Brooke
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Wilfred Owen
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W.H.Auden
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T.S.Eliot
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