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	What is the greatest single line of poetry ever written? By Zenless Asked Aug 25 2009 10:48AM	2 Pts Rate Question

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by Roger Kovaciny on Aug 25, 2009 at 12:02 pm Permalink

We ... are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

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Zenless Aug, 25 2009 at 01:17 PM

Who was the author? Auden?

SomewhereSomething Aug, 30 2009 at 11:52 AM

No, it's called "In Flander's Field" and was written by John McCrae, a Canadian soldier in WWI.

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by kat on Aug 30, 2009 at 2:40 pm Permalink

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me.

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by SomewhereSomething on Aug 30, 2009 at 12:10 pm Permalink

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
(From A Dream Within A Dream, an Edgar Allan Poe poem)

These are my favourite lines right now, but I couldn't tell you what the greatest single line of poetry ever written is. I doubt anyone would agree on that. I love your question though.