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You Know More Poetry Than You Think!

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Introduction:
"Just as we all know a little classical music from watching old Bugs Bunny cartoons, everyone has picked up bits and tag ends of poetry. Just complete the line."


1. "The grave's a fine and private place_________"
    and there you can hide your face
    but none, I think, do there embrace
    and holds an end to every chase
    quiet and dark and dim


2. "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, ____________"
    and that has made all the difference
    and found my way to you
    and shall get homeward, by and by
    and can't get back, though I try


3. "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, a host____________"
    of golden daffodils
    of heaped and towering hills
    of shining angels
    a mob, an army


4. "How do I love thee____________"
    thy heart belongs to another
    with all my heart and soul
    let me count the ways
    when thou dost not love me?


5. "Here he lies where he longed to be, home is the sailor, home from sea,____________"
    lying under the great green tree
    and the hunter home from the hill
    and that is where he wants to be
    and home is the lonely traveller


6. "Hog Butcher for the World____________"
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat
    You have finished killing at last
    Where are your pigs?
    With their little tails all curled


7. "Do not go gentle into that good night_____________"
    Put up a darn good fight
    Do not waste and fade away
    Wait a bit, 'til morning
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light


8. "Stone walls do not a prison make________________"
    because stone can bend and break
    nor iron bars a cage
    when your spirit is free
    so hide a file inside the cake


9. "In Flanders fields the poppies blow________________"
    between the crosses, row on row
    their petals waving in the wind
    red, red, and white
    and far away your loved ones go


10. "In the room the women come and go_______________"
    waving their fans, to and fro
    talking of Michelangelo
    come and go, come and go
    and then are gone - to where?


11. "Parting is all we know of heaven_____________"
    in this world of ours
    parting is what we dread
    and all we see of heaven
    and all we need of hell


12. "Poems are made by fools like me________________"
    and prose is writ by fools like you
    but only God can make a tree
    and cast in bottles to the sea
    and that's the birth of poetry


13. "On the eighteenth of April, in seventy-five Hardly a man is now alive______________"
    who remembers that famous day and year
    those who are still battle and strive
    who was there then
    none of them are yet alive


14. ""'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door _________"
    - perhaps the maid, to clean the floor"
    - only this and nothing more"
    - over the stormwind's mighty roar"
    - could be the one that I adore"


15. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!___________"
    Did you hit it with a rock?
    You are the hero of the day
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
    I am filled to the brim with joy


16. "My name is Ozymandius, king of kings, ___________"
    I am the Lord of all I survey
    fear me
    my breast hung with jewels, my hands full of rings
    look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair


17. "Oh, to be in England___________"
    rather than in France!
    eating fish and chips
    a cleaner, greener land
    now that April's there


18. "Men seldom make passes______________"
    at ideas, drifting, dreamlike
    at ugly women
    and feints, without doubt and fear
    at girls who wear glasses


19. "I saw the best minds of my generation____________"
    destroyed by madness
    bent upon regeneration
    go into advertising
    I saw the worst minds of my time


20. "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings_______________"
    and Princes, and Queens
    until they hurt you
    and never be afraid
    nor lose the common touch


21. "Morning has broken________________"
    like the first morning
    crickets are croakin'
    night has gone
    light has spread


22. "Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why________________"
    theirs not to moan and cry
    theirs but to do and die
    no choice had they but one
    if they only knew the reason why


23. "A damsel with a dulcimer______________"
    walked into the room
    played a melody so plain
    in a vision once I saw
    a small boy with a drum


24. "Isabel, Isabel didn't worry Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,___________"
    and solved the problem, in a hurry
    twirled, and then, disappeared in a flurry
    then Isabel quickly pulled a chair up
    then Isabel quietly ate the bear up


25. "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,_____________"
    no longer buried in the past
    is now, at least, lurching round at last
    opens its bloody maw?
    slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?


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