American Seminar Semester 1 Review: Poetry (REVISED)

Author/Title: "Improve your privileges while they stay, / Ye pupils, and each hour redeem"

Phillis Wheatley, 'To the University of Cambridge in New England'

A/T: "Then straight I 'gin my heart to chide, / And did thy wealth on earth abide?"

Anne Bradstreet, 'Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666'

A/T: "The angels, not half so happy in heaven / Went envying her and me"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'Annabel Lee'

A/T: "But plants new set to be eradicate, / And buds new blown to have so short a date, / Is by His hand alone that guides nature and fate."

Anne Bradstreet, 'In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old'

A/T: "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold / Or all the riches that the East doth hold."

Anne Bradstreet, 'To My Dear and Loving Husband'

What poem uses the refrain 'Nevermore'?

Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

A/T: "And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'Alone'

A/T: "Skoal! To the Northland! Skoal!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Skeleton in Armor'

A/T: "From childhood's hour I have not been / As other were - I have not seen / As others saw"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'Alone'

A/T: "I was a Viking old! / My deeds, though manifold, / No Skald in song has told, / No Saga taught thee!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Skeleton in Armor'

A/T: "I could not bring my passions from a common spring"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'Alone'

A/T: "In joy, may I sweet flowers for glory breed, / Whether thou get'st them green, or lets them seed."

Edward Taylor, 'Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children'

A/T: "Then while we live, in love let's so persevere / that when we live no more, we may live ever."

Anne Bradstreet, 'To My Dear and Loving Husband'

A/T: "This Bread of Life dropped in thy mouth, doth Cry: / Eat, Eat me, Soul, and thou shalt never die."

Edward Taylor, 'Meditation 8'

A/T: "My Blessed Lord, how doth thy Beauteous Spouse / In Stately Stature rise in Comeliness?"

Edward Taylor, 'Meditation 150'

A/T: "The Purest Wheat in heaven His dear-dear son / Grinds, and kneads up into this Bread of Life."

Edward Taylor, 'Meditation 8'

A/T: "To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need."

Emily Dickinson, 'Success is Counted Sweetest'

A/T: "I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul?"

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (21)

A/T: "Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, / Missing me one place search another, / I stop somewhere waiting for you."

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (52)

A/T: "Such is the cross I wear upon my breast / These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes / And seasons, changeless since the day she died."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'The Cross of Snow'

A/T: "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

A/T: "Agonies are one of my changes of garments, / I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (33)

A/T: "I understand the large hearts of heroes, / The courage of present times and all times"

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (33)

A/T: "But our love it was stronger by far than the love / Of those who were older than we - / of many far wiser than we"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'Annabel Lee'

A/T: "But we loved with a love that was more than love"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'Annabel Lee'

A/T: "Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side, / Thy every action let the goddess guide."

Phillis Wheatley, 'To His Excellency General Washington'

A/T: "Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, / May be refined, and join the angelic train."

Phillis Wheatley, 'On Being Brought from Africa to America'

A/T: "For sorrow near I did not look."

Anne Bradstreet, 'Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666'

A/T: "Be not like dumb, driven cattle! / Be a hero in the strife!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Psalm of Life'

A/T: "Why did they leave that night / Her nest unguarded?"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Skeleton in Armor'

A/T: "I am the mash'd fireman with breast-bone broken"

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (33)

A/T: "Or thick as leaves in Autumn's golden reign, / Such, and so many, moves the warrior's train."

Phillis Wheatley, 'To His Excellency General George Washington'

A/T: "Suppress the deadly serpent in its egg / . . . Its transient sweetness turns to endless pain"

Phillis Wheatley, 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England'

A/T: "Lord take't. I thank Thee, thou tak'st ought of mine: / It is my pledge ing lory, part of me / Is now in it, Lord, glorified with Thee."

Edward Taylor, 'Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children'

Which poem is considered a sonnet?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'The Cross of Snow'

A/T: "Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had tried to borrow / From my books surcease of sorrow"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

A/T: "I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away / What portion of me be / Assignable. . ."

Emily Dickinson, 'I Heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died'

A/T: "Let us then be up and doing, / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labor and to wait."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'A Psalm of Life'

A/T: "Life is real-life is earnest- / And the grave is not its goal"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'A Psalm of Life'

A/T: "I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there."

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (33)

A/T: "And when I could no longer look, / I blest His name that gave and took."

Anne Bradstreet, 'Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666'

A/T: "Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!"

Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

A/T: "How dreary - to be - Somebody! / How public - like a Frog"

Emily Dickinson, 'I am Nobody! Who are You?'

A/T: "Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! / Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!"

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (21)

A/T: "One century scarce performed its destined round, / when Gallic powers Columbia's fury found"

Phillis Wheatley, 'To His Excellency General George Washington'

A/T: "Assent - and you are sane - / Demur - you're straightway dangerous - / And handled with a Chain"

Emily Dickinson, 'Much Madness is Divinest Sense'

A/T: "With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz - "

Emily Dickinson, 'I Heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died'

A/T: "I've known her - from an ample nation - / Choose One - / Then - close the Valves of her attention - / Like Stone"

Emily Dickinson, 'The Soul Selects Her Own Society'

A/T: "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (52)

A/T: "So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - / I'm going, all along."

Emily Dickinson, 'Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church'