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Identify the title of the work for the following quote: “Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;/Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see/A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings/And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.”

Who wrote the lines “The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: and a thousand thousand slimy things lived on; and so did I…”

Edwardian England (1901-1910) joined the artist and the intellectual together with the high society.

Identify the author of the work for the following quote: “And a tense, musty ignorable silence,/Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take off/My clycle-clips in awkward reference.”

In “The Darkling Thrush” the reader feels a sense of renewal upon hearing the thrush for the first time.

Identify the author of the work for the following quote: “How will they ever know, when they file newspaper clippings, evidence, proof, when they look at the photographs and see his face–guilty! guilty! they are right!–how will they know, when the police station burn with all the evidence of what has happened now,….”

Identify the title of the poem with the lines “Beauty is truth, truth beauty-that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

The theme of this poem suggests time erases the mightiest of human works.

Identify the author of the work for the following quote: “And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords/Of life./And I have something to expiate;/A pettiness.”

“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy takes place at the end of the day, the end of the year, and the end of the century.