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Whose epitaph is this?
"Excuse my dust."
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Who said serious men can't have a sense of humor? Whose epitaph was this?
Within this circular idea
Called vulgarly a tomb,
The ideas and impressions lie
That constituted ______.
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One of Pope's funniest couplets was inscribed on a dog collar worn by one of the royal dogs in what location?
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Whose epitaph?
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
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Which of these is not a quote from Alexander Pope?
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What wit left us this on his tombstone?
Heroes and Kings! your distance keep;
In peace let one poor Poet sleep,
Who never flatter'd Folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
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Whose epitaph is this? (The author's name occupies the blank space.)
Reader, I am to let thee know,
_______'s body only lies below;
For could the grave his soul comprise,
Earth would be richer than the skies.
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Who wrote this epitaph for his seven year old son he lost? (The blank space holds the name of the father and author.)
Farewell, thou child of my right hand and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy,
Seven years thou wert lent to me and I thee pay
Exacted by thy fate on the just day.
O, could I lose all father, now. For why
Will man lament the state he should envy?
To have so soon scap'd World's and flesh's rage,
And, if no other misery, yet age?
Rest in soft peace and ask'd say here doth lie
__________ his best piece of poetrie.
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such
As what he loves may never like too much.
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Which poet wrote the following poem consisting of a single word (and found himself under attack after receiving government grant money)?
lighght
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Who wrote this poem?
THE POSTMAN
The smell
of vegetables
on a cold day
performs faithfully an act of reality
like a knight in search of the holy grail
or a postman on a rural route looking
for a farm that isn't there.
Carrots, peppers and berries.
Nerval, Baudelaire and Rimbaud.
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