In a British poem, this is "raddled with Napoleon's paint. Nose eaten by a less clear conqueror"
In an 1842 poem, it is said of this legendary character that his "quaint attire" is much admired
It's the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains... covered with snow... the straths & green valleys below"
At a seminary that classified students' degree of faith, Emily Dickinson was "without" this, which she compares to a bird in a poem
Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon"
At his 1892 burial, fit for a baron, the organist put music to his words, "I hope to see my Pilot face to face, when I have crost the bar"
In 1939 he was buried near his last residence in France, but his body arrived in Galway en route to final burial on September 17, 1948
An 1816 poem by him says, "That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!"
This New York woman died in 1887, the year after the subject of her most famous poem was unveiled
A Dartmouth dropout, he received 2 honorary degrees from Dartmouth--in 1933 & 1955
Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars
He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem
5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914
The statue of a sailor seenherein Watchet, England is based on a famous poem by this man
In an 1855 poem he wrote, "I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven"
A critic said this 1956 poem was "a tirade... against those who do not share the poet's... sexual orientation"
Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man
One summer day in 1797 this British poet fell asleep reading a book that adapted the writings of Marco Polo
This 1883 poem says, "Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman..."
On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L. of G. at last complete--after 33 y'rs of hackling at it"
The narrator mistakes the presence of this title creature for the wind & later calls it prophet
Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust
Her most famous poem was written for a December 1883 art & literary auction to benefit the Pedestal Fund
While north of his homeland he was inspired to write perhaps his greatest work, "Alturas de Macchu Picchu"
"The spirit who bideth by himself / In the land of mist and snow / He loved the bird that loved the man / Who shot him with his bow"
It was saved from destruction by a poem submitted to the Boston Daily Advertiser in September 1830
A line in this 1863 poem mentions "The eighteenth of April, in seventy-five"
Translator Edward Fitzgerald wrote that her 1861 "death is rather a relief to me... no more Aurora Leighs, thank God"
Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was"
In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines
Longfellow began a poem about this earlier poet, "Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom"
The first edition of this collection of poems did not include "The Last Tournament"; it was added in the 1870s
This poet wrote, "I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise"
In a poem about this battle, Robert Browning wrote, "To Akropolis! Run, Pheidippides, one race more"
Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass"
One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you"
She wrote, "From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor"
The Library of Congress' 2005 exhibit on him had a section titled "Wound Dresser in the Civil War"
Called the 2 most innovative 19th century American poets, one didn't read the other after being "told that he was disgraceful"
She has over 30 honorary degrees, wrote a poem for Clinton's first inauguration & now has a line of Hallmark Cards
Oscar Wilde said of this title place "The warder is despair"
These 2 great English romantic poets died while still in their 20s, one in 1821 & one in 1822
Made a baron in the early 1880s, he was the first Englishman elevated to that rank for literary work alone
One reason he is not buried in Westminster Abbey is his epitaph, which concludes, "Curst be he that moves my bones"
Spurned in love, he joined the Light Dragoons in 1793 under the alias Silas Tomkyn Comberbache
He had already published "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" when Vachel Lindsay discovered him busing tables
In 1879 the children of Cambridge, Massachusetts gave him an armchair made of chestnut wood
In 1942 his collection of verse "Shakespeare in Harlem" appeared
In 1968 Gwendolyn Brooks succeeded this man as Poet Laureate of Illinois
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works