![[a:George Gordon Byron|44407|George Gordon Byron|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1204920236p2/44407.jpg] (Lord Byron) wrote these damning lines about which 19th Century politician (pictured):
Cold-blooded, smooth-faced, placid miscreant
Dabbling its sleek young hands in Erin's gore,
And thus for wider carnage taught to pant,
Transferred to gorge upon a sister shore
The vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want,
With just enough of talent, and no more,
To lengthen fetters by another fixed,
And offer poison long already mixed.](http://photo.goodreads.com/questions/1226848400p1/25737.jpg)
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George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) wrote these damning lines about which 19th Century politician (pictured):
Cold-blooded, smooth-faced, placid miscreant
Dabbling its sleek young hands in Erin's gore,
And thus for wider carnage taught to pant,
Transferred to gorge upon a sister shore
The vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want,
With just enough of talent, and no more,
To lengthen fetters by another fixed,
And offer poison long already mixed.
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Lord Byron's bold and brooding romantic character was called what?
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Who (possibly in translation) described critics in the following unflattering terms?
"Those chicken-hearted chicken-shits
Jerk off their weak and venomous wits"
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Who wrote; "SO, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
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"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies"
Who wrote it?
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Although Charlotte Brontë avoided giving dates in Jane Eyre, there are some indications about the period in which the novel is set. One of which is this:
While teaching in Morton, St John Rivers brings Jane a book which leads her to reflect: "he laid on the table a new publication -- a poem: one of those genuine productions so often vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days -- the golden age of modern literature. Alas! the readers of our age are less favoured."
This long poem, published in 1808, was one of the most popular and widely-read works of the Romantic era. What is it called and who wrote it?
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The poet Lord Byron was christened as?
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If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry entitled "She Walks in Booties?"
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Fill in the surname of the correct poet in this excerpt from Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility:
"You have already ascertained Mr. Willoughby's opinion in almost every matter of importance. You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott; you are certain of his estimating their beauties as he ought, and you have received every assurance of his admiring _________ no more than is proper."
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The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
Name the quoted poet: "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
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The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon
Name the quoted poet:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
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Identify the poet:
"No more -- no more -- Oh! never more on me
The freshness of the heart can fall like dew,
Which out of all the lovely things we see
Extracts emotions beautiful and new;
Hived in our bosoms like the bag o' the bee."
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art:
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
A Sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne,
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that ofttimes hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
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