Can you name the word missing from each of these poetic lines?

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LineWordPoet
The ___ are lovely, dark, and deep. / But I have promises to keepRobert Frost
Do I ___ myself? / Very well then, I ___ myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Walt Whitman
I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a ___.Joyce Kilmer
Maybe it just sags / like a heavy load. // Or does it ___?Langston Hughes
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and ____Omar Khayyam*
In Flanders fields the ___ grow / between the crosses row on rowJohn McCrae
All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible ___ is bornWilliam Butler Yeats
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun / The frumious ___!Lewis Carroll
'Beauty is ___, ___ beauty,' - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.John Keats
...to the lonely sea and the sky, / And all I ask is a tall ship and a ___ to steer her by;John Masefield
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely, and more ___William Shakespeare
In ___ did Kubla Khan / a stately pleasure-dome decree:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' / Quoth the Raven: '___!'Edgar Allan Poe
And ___ shall be no more; ___, thou shalt die.John Donne
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a ___?T. S. Eliot
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / ___, ___ against the dying of the lightDylan Thomas
I could not love thee Dear, so much, / loved I not ___ more.Richard Lovelace
___, ___, you bastard, I'm through.Sylvia Plath
Till we have built ___ / in England's green & pleasant land.William Blake
'___' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soulEmily Dickinson
Glory be to God for ___ things—/ For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;Gerard Manley Hopkins
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by / ___, starving hysterical naked,Allen Ginsberg
Tune is heard on the distant hill / For the caged bird sings of ___.Maya Angelou
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to ___.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The ___ comes / on little cat feet.Carl Sandburg
When all at once I saw a crowd,-- / A host of golden ___.William Wordsworth
'My name is ___, king of kings / Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!Percy Bysshe Shelley
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know / The place where the ___ endsShel Silverstein
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Incomplete Poetry Quiz

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